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Subject: Re: [Nostratica] Re: replacement
rates
No final number. This will work for something like the Swadesh
list. There are other
ways to get semantic distances from dictionaries. I
would be interesting to compare
them after they have been worked out.
Geraldine Reinhardt wrote:
Interesting. Does that leave the final
number at infinity (in the power of 2)?
Gerry
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Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:51 AM
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Re: [Nostratica] Re: replacement rates
IT would have to be in powers of 2. I got started on 32
already. We can double it
to 64, then 128. We'd have to add 28
more to Swadesh 100. Then we can double to
256, and we only need 28
more for that.
Gerry wrote:
Most interesting. Yet based on
Boolean ideas, how many words would be contained in renovating the
Swadesh list?
Gerry
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Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:01 AM
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Re: [Nostratica] Re: replacement rates
There is a shorter way. We can start with a subset of
the Swadesh list. Yakhontov
already has a shorter version which has
35 words. A simple metric should probably
be based on Boolean
ideas. 32 is a good number since it is a power of 2. I already
got
started but haven't had time to pay attention to it. If anyone is
interested, we can
collaborate.
tgpedersen
wrote:
--- In
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"H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> I think what linguistics needs
is a "semantic metric". I know how
to
> derive at least
two different
> ones from data but need time and money :-) I
think all linguists
should
> appreciate the need
for
> semantic metrics. It does not matter how many. That
could always be
> worked out, fixed,
> repaired,
improved etc. The trick is to get going.
>
That would
require us to know some canonical development of a
canonical set
of concepts. That is a tall
order.
Torsten
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