huh? I don't think that that is an appropriate way of representing a language family. The flow would only be down-stream, coming to branching points, for which the IF-THEN-ELSE conditions are generally unknown, only the effects. Presumably, an parent language COULD represent input and a daughter language COULD represent output, and I suppose the development timeline COULD represent throughput. However, in many cases, a daughter language becomes an parent language to a new daughter language or language group. In many cases, in the model that you're proposing, the daughter process(es) will feed output back into the parent process, but I can't think of any case in which a daugther language feeds back into or influences the development of its parent. What kind of mechanism did you envision for storage?
Andy Howey
Michael <lookwhoscross-eyednow@...> wrote:
Hi,
What's the best way to represent the Indo-European language family, or any branch or sub-branch of IE, as a scientific system, with the 5 key components of Inputs, Flows or throughputs, Stores or storage areas and Outputs? Or is this even possible and can a model of this be made at all?
-Michael
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