Hence, the term isogloss, from iso - ` same '+ gloss. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference
More isogloss amusement for the linguistic nerd at. From Wordnik.com. [More isogloss amusement for the linguistic nerd at heart] Reference
More isogloss amusement for the linguistic nerd at heart. From Wordnik.com. [More isogloss amusement for the linguistic nerd at heart] Reference
A conceptual experiment concerning "moving isogloss maps". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
I want to talk about the awesome, yet unappreciated, power of isogloss maps. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
Phonation shift would in effect be a barrier to this burgeoning isogloss wave. From Wordnik.com. [Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case system] Reference
Paleoglot: More isogloss amusement for the linguistic nerd at heart skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [More isogloss amusement for the linguistic nerd at heart] Reference
Look carefully at my isogloss map posted in Markedness and the uvular proposal in PIE. From Wordnik.com. [Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2] Reference
This regional isogloss was now the seed for satem dialects like Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic. From Wordnik.com. [Reinterpreting the Proto-Indo-European velar series] Reference
The isogloss boundaries are much clearer in the full sized version Picasa automatically shrank it. From Wordnik.com. [The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model] Reference
I toy with this idea to illustrate for you how language waves and isogloss maps can help us explore new details about ancient languages. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
What I'm doing here as a demonstration of the hidden potential of isogloss mapping is keeping track of some general features that seem to recur over and over again in certain areas. From Wordnik.com. [More isogloss amusement for the linguistic nerd at heart] Reference
As they expanded, they began, for inscrutable Frankish reasons, to devoice word-final obstruents this is the blue isogloss, thereby establishing Frankish as its own distinct, highly conservative dialect. From Wordnik.com. [The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model] Reference
It's untested but even if it's wrong, it should give you an example of an as-yet underappreciated process using isogloss mapping to tease out interesting details about a protolanguage's history that would otherwise go unpondered. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
I made this simple isogloss map to show at a glance how I would explain Proto-Steppe's development into the later proto-languages known and studied and it relates, as always, to the unpixelated view of the Wave Model of language change. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
To explain fully, I'd have to write another long article but for now I'll just sum up my current solution: PIE's e/o ablaut originates from early pre-IE vowel harmony which would have been an isogloss shared with pre-Altaic... circa 8000 BCE. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Pre-IE Centralization] Reference
Ellis, Wright, and dialectologists ever since have used this u/au isogloss to divide the northern dialects from the north midland dialects. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4] Reference
Hunslet is south of the river Aire, so across the isogloss, and I sounded like a comer-in speaking in my broadest Leeds-north-of-the-river. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
The lines that delineate areas where one form occurs predominantly are called isoglosses and a map that uses them is called an isogloss map (see fig. 1). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4] Reference
Leeds vowels are mixed because it lies just south of another isogloss, the river Wharfe, which divided the North and North Midland dialects of Middle English. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
The latter method avoids the arbitrary drawing of an isogloss and, with the different kinds of hatching being allowed to overlap -- signifying transitional areas where there is no clear dominance of one form -- it may give a more realistic picture. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4] Reference
Although it is true that isoglosses, in effect, set off the various areas where a particular usage was recorded, more accurately an isogloss is drawn to connect sites either where speakers employ both usages or where speakers using one or the other live in very close proximity. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference
History, indo-european, isogloss, language, pre-IE, prehistory, protolanguage, satem. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
History, indo-european, isogloss, language, pre-IE, prehistory, protolanguage, satem comments. From Wordnik.com. [Language waves and the satem innovation in PIE] Reference
Altaic, altaic-gilyak, chukchi-kamchatkan, eskimo-aleut, gilyak, indo-aegean, indo-european, isogloss, languages, linguistics, prehistory, proto-boreal, proto-steppe, uralic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
Altaic, altaic-gilyak, chukchi-kamchatkan, eskimo-aleut, gilyak, indo-aegean, indo-european, isogloss, languages, linguistics, prehistory, proto-boreal, proto-steppe, uralic comments. From Wordnik.com. [Prehistoric isoglosses in Proto-Steppe] Reference
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