long ranger

See also: long-ranger

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Noun

long ranger (plural long rangers)

  1. (linguistics) A historical linguist engaged in search of long-range relationships among already established language families by comparing proto-languages.
    • 1993, N. N., Report on 2nd Comparative Workshop: Nostratic‎:
      He thinks that long-rangers often use Pokorny's material uncritically ("fishing expeditions in Pokorny's") although it is considered to be dated in many respects by the modern state of Indo-European studies.
    • 1995, Donald Ringe, Conference Report, Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics‎:
      Yes, all the long rangers, as far as I can tell, are not controlling for the possibility that the similarities between languages they are working on fall within the range of what one would expect by chance alone.
    • 2002, Alexander Vovin, Building a 'Bum-pa for Sino-Caucasian‎, page 160:
      This painstaking process of checking texts and cultural data rather than dictionaries may seem to be not worth the candle for some (but not all) long-rangers.
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