| 词条 | Teeter's law |
| 释义 |
Teeter's law is a wry observation about the biases of historical linguists, explaining how different investigators can arrive at radically divergent conceptions of the proto-language of a family:{{sfn|Watkins|1976|p=310}}{{sfn|Lightfoot|1979|p=156}} {{quote|The language of the family you know best always turns out to be the most archaic.}}Although the law is named after the Americanist linguist Karl Teeter, it apparently does not appear in any of Teeter's works.{{sfn|Hock|2007|p=275}} It is customarily quoted from a 1976 review by the Indo-European linguist Calvert Watkins of Paul Friedrich's Proto-Indo-European syntax: the order of meaningful elements.{{sfn|Hock|2007|p=275}} Watkins argued that Friedrich, after criticizing other scholars for overemphasizing particular branches of the family, had based his reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European syntax entirely on Homeric Greek.{{sfn|Watkins|1976|p=310}} ReferencesWorks cited
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| title = Principles of Diachronic Syntax | first = David W. | last = Lightfoot | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1979 | isbn = 978-0-521-29350-1 | postscript = .
| first = Calvert | last = Watkins | chapter = Towards Proto-Indo-European syntax: problems and pseudo-problems | title = Papers from the Parasession on Diachronic Syntax | pages = 305–326 | editor1-first = Sanford B. | editor1-last = Steever | editor2-first = Carol A. | editor2-last = Walker | editor3-first = Salikoko S. | editor3-last = Mufwene | location = Chicago | publisher = Chicago Linguistic Society | year = 1976 | postscript = . 2 : Adages|Historical linguistics |
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