Definition of stemmatics in English:
stemmatics
plural nounstɛˈmatɪksstemˈadiks
treated as singular The branch of study concerned with analysing the relationship of surviving variant versions of a text to each other, especially so as to reconstruct a lost original.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is widely accepted that stemmatics originated in the work of Karl Lachmman.
- There appear to be strong analogies between the worlds of stemmatics and systematics.
- This will be followed by instruction in the theory and practice of textual criticism, including stemmatics.
- This is not to imply that stemmatics is useless for the New Testament.
- Though this aim is old, some of the methods we use - computer collation, techniques of computerised stemmatics borrowed from evolutionary biology, database analysis - are very much of the late twentieth century.