[Histling-l] earliest attestation of a 'cognate set'?

[Claire Bowern]

Dear list members,
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?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Claire

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Claire Bowern
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Chair: Yale Women Faculty Forum (wff.yale.edu)
Department of Linguistics
New Haven, CT  06511
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