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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

of the modern techniques of linguistic reconstruction (such as the comparative method) were developed as a result.[citation needed] PIE is hypothesized...

principal tools of research in diachronic linguistics are the comparative method and the method of internal reconstruction. Less-standard techniques, such...

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

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

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

relationships biologists rely on comparative genomics, as physiology and comparative anatomy are not possible methods. Microbial phylogenetics emerged...

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...

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

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...

method of reconstructing an earlier state in a language's history using only language-internal evidence of the language in question. The comparative method...

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

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

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

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

tales, and folk beliefs of early Indo-Iranian culture. By way of the comparative method, Indo-Iranian philologists, a variety of historical linguist, have...

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

scholars of comparative mythology and Indo-European studies generally agree on the motifs they have reconstructed by way of the comparative method. Scholar...