In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or...

Comparative Politics is a field in Political Science characterized either by the use of the comparative method or other empirical methods to explore politics...

the lexicon of two or more languages using techniques such as the comparative method. In principle, every difference between two related languages should...

comparative methods (PCMs) use information on the historical relationships of lineages (phylogenies) to test evolutionary hypotheses. The comparative...

Glaser and Strauss developed the constant comparative method which later became known as the grounded theory method. They summarized their research in the...

families and reconstructing unrecorded proto-languages, using the comparative method and internal reconstruction. The focus was initially on the well-known...

use of the comparative method of linguistic analysis. In order to test the hypothesis that two languages are related, the comparative method begins with...

in one study. When it comes to method, the majority agreement is that there is no methodology peculiar to comparative research. The multidisciplinary...

faculty", or the "language instinct". The comparative method of crosslinguistic research applies the comparative method used in historical linguistics to psycholinguistic...

partially attested at best. They are reconstructed by way of the comparative method. In the family tree metaphor, a proto-language can be called a mother...

In statistics, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a data analysis based on set theory to examine the relationship of conditions to outcome. QCA...

of the modern techniques of linguistic reconstruction (such as the comparative method) were developed as a result. PIE is hypothesized to have been spoken...

available. By analyzing related languages with a technique known as the comparative method, linguists can make inferences about their shared parent language...

Lexicostatistics is a method of comparative linguistics that involves comparing the percentage of lexical cognates between languages to determine their...

economic sociology, sociology of education, social change, and comparative methods. Among many lifetime achievements, Smelser "laid the foundations...

forming an interlocking pattern common to the group. Unlike the comparative method, mass comparison does not require any regular or systematic correspondences...

negură, păstaie, scorbură, spuză, stăpân, sterp, stână, traistă. The comparative method can be extended to other languages of the Indo-European family, including...

methodological debates within comparative politics, most notably through his 1971 article "Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method," published in the American...

Wilhelm von Humboldt, Herman van der Tuuk) started to apply the comparative method to the Austronesian languages. The first extensive study on the history...

traditionally Pama–Nyungan families which have been demonstrated through the comparative method, or which in Dixon's opinion are likely to be demonstrable, include...

linguistic reconstruction in historical linguistics (e.g., the comparative method and the method of internal reconstruction) were developed as a result. PIE...

languages, belonging to the same language family, by means of the comparative method. A language reconstructed in this way is often referred to as a proto-language...

any complete surviving texts; it has been reconstructed using the comparative method. However, there is fragmentary direct attestation of (late) Proto-Germanic...

'comparative' is suitable. Emile Durkheim argued in The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) that all sociological research was in fact comparative since...

and discover his interests in the field. Haddon led him towards the comparative method in specific societies in anthropology, classification and morphology...

No. 2 (21 January 2016), p. 15-18. Gordon Marshall, "comparative sociology, comparative method", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Sociology (1994), p...

disciplines like history and language mainly use the comparative method and comparative research. Other methods used in the humanities include hermeneutics, source...

attested in writing but has been partly reconstructed through the comparative method. Proto-Celtic is generally thought to have been spoken between 1300...

hypothesized Vasconic Proto-language could only be done using the comparative method, although the accuracy of the reconstructed proto-language would still...

consider that IE and Anatolian are comparable separate branches. The comparative method was formally developed in the 19th century and applied first to Indo-European...