The history of the Na-Dene controversy: A sketch. Language and Culture in North America
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Опубликовано в: Language and Culture in Native North America – Studies in Honor of Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow. Edited by Michael Dürr, Egon Renner, and Wolfgang Oleschinski. München and Newcastle: LINCOM, 1995. — 3–18 pp.Research into the genetic relationships of the languages known under the name Na-Dene is almost 200 years of age and began at a time at which there was no methodologically founded strategy for empirical research. Only with the rise of linguistics as an academic discipline did the concern about cognate connections between languages become a matter of intensive and systematic research. The changes in analytical methods and in the perception of such connections which have occurred since then have been controlled by the discipline.