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<div>Dear Claire,</div>
<div>Just to say I agree that you could hardly call the comparisons Dante makes, both between Latin and the vernaculars and between different vernaculars, correspondence sets in anything like the usual sense of that term.</div>
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https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/nigel-vincent(f973a991-8ece-453e-abc5-3ca198c869dc).html</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 22, 2019 11:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Histling-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Histling-l] earliest attestation of a 'cognate set'?<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear list members,
<div>I'm writing an article about historical databases and I'm trying to trace the earliest example of a correspondence set (or some other equivalent organization of data). Rask has comparisons, of course, and earlier the typological/lexical comparisons of
Gesner and contemporaries. Dante makes comparisons between Latin and contemporary vernaculars but I'm not sure we could call those correspondence sets. Are there similar correspondences in the Arabic or Turkic grammatical traditions? Or other early authors
who talk about systematic correspondences or organize data in a way that we might associate with cognate or comparison sets? </div>
<div>Thanks in advance for your help,</div>
<div>Claire<br clear="all">
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