Jump to content

Subgrouping

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Sagotreespirit (talk | contribs) at 06:27, 19 December 2020 (removed Category:Linguistic typology; added Category:Language classification using HotCat). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Subgrouping in linguistics is the division of a language family into its constituent branches.

References

Greenberg, Joseph H. 1957. "The problem of linguistic subgroupings", in Essays in Linguistics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.