| 单词 | family tree theory |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfamily tree theory General attributive, as family tree diagram, family tree theory, etc. ΚΠ 1880 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 10 p. lxxvii This leads Schmidt to reject altogether the ordinary ‘family tree’ (Stammbaum) arrangement of Indo-European languages. 1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 83/1 Botanists have no family tree arrangement for plants. 1904 Hayfield Mower 1 165/2 Not one single Centergrade man or woman wanted to be reckoned by what he or she was. Every one would be a sprig of the past, a twig of a family-tree branch. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xviii. 318 The older family-tree theory of linguistic relationship. 1999 J. Heathcott in S. L. Linkon Teaching Working Class 113 I passed out family tree charts and asked students to list their parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles. 2007 Anthropol. Linguistics 49 207 Lingua francas can..tangle up a branching family tree diagram and greatly complicate language classification. < as lemmas |
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