long ranger

See also: long-ranger

English

Alternative forms

long-ranger

Noun

long ranger (plural long rangers)

(linguistics) A historical linguist engaged in search of long-range relationships among already established language families by comparing proto-languages.
- 1993, N. N., Report on 2nd Comparative Workshop: Nostratic:
  He thinks that long-rangers often use Pokorny's material uncritically ("fishing expeditions in Pokorny's") although it is considered to be dated in many respects by the modern state of Indo-European studies.
- 1995, Don Ringe, Conference Report, Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics:
  Yes, all the long rangers, as far as I can tell, are not controlling for the possibility that the similarities between languages they are working on fall within the range of what one would expect by chance alone.
- 2002, Alexander Vovin, Building a Bum-pa for Sino-Caucasian, p. 160:
  This painstaking process of checking texts and cultural data rather than dictionaries may seem to be not worth the candle for some (but not all) long-rangers.

单词	long ranger
释义	long ranger See also: long-ranger English Alternative forms long-ranger Noun long ranger (plural long rangers) (linguistics) A historical linguist engaged in search of long-range relationships among already established language families by comparing proto-languages. 1993, N. N., Report on 2nd Comparative Workshop: Nostratic: He thinks that long-rangers often use Pokorny's material uncritically ("fishing expeditions in Pokorny's") although it is considered to be dated in many respects by the modern state of Indo-European studies. 1995, Don Ringe, Conference Report, Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics: Yes, all the long rangers, as far as I can tell, are not controlling for the possibility that the similarities between languages they are working on fall within the range of what one would expect by chance alone. 2002, Alexander Vovin, Building a Bum-pa for Sino-Caucasian, p. 160: This painstaking process of checking texts and cultural data rather than dictionaries may seem to be not worth the candle for some (but not all) long-rangers.
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