Jämför metoder

	Jämförande metod	Korpuslingvistik	Dialektometri
Ämnesområde	Lingvistik	Lingvistik	Lingvistik
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1786	1980	1973
Upphovsperson	Sir William Jones	John Sinclair	Jean Seguy
Typ	Empirical process pipeline	Empirical process pipeline	Empirical process pipeline
Ursprungskälla	Hock, H. H. (1991). Principles of Historical Linguistics (2nd ed.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.	Sinclair, J. M. (1991). Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.	Seguy, J. (1973). La dialectométrie dans l'étude de l'espace linguistique. Revue de Linguistique Romane, 37, 1-24.
Alias	Historical Comparative Linguistics, Genetic Linguistics	Corpus Analysis, Corpora Studies	Linguistic Distance Measurement, Quantitative Dialect Analysis
Närliggande	4	1	1
Sammanfattning	The Comparative Method is a foundational technique in historical linguistics for reconstructing ancestral languages and establishing genetic relationships between related languages. Pioneered by Sir William Jones in 1786, it systematically compares phonological, morphological, and lexical features across languages to identify regular sound correspondences and trace their shared origins. This method underpins modern historical linguistics and has been essential for understanding language families worldwide.	Corpus Linguistics is the study of language based on large, representative collections of texts (corpora) processed by computer. Pioneered by John Sinclair and others, the method uses statistical analysis, concordancing, and computational tools to examine patterns of actual language use. Corpus linguistics has transformed our understanding of English and other languages, revealing frequency patterns, collocation preferences, and register variation that were previously hidden. It serves theoretical linguistics, applied language teaching, and natural language processing.	Dialectometry is a quantitative method for measuring linguistic distances between dialects or languages using objective metrics applied to phonological, lexical, or phonetic data. Pioneered by Jean Seguy in 1973, dialectometry compares word lists, pronunciations, or phonetic transcriptions across speech varieties to calculate similarity scores. The resulting distance matrices and dendrograms reveal patterns of dialect relatedness and geographic or social clustering. This method complements traditional dialectology and contributes to historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.