comparative method

noun

Historical Linguistics.

a body of procedures and criteria used by linguists to determine whether and how two or more languages are related and to reconstruct forms of their hypothetical parent language.

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Historical linguists seek to determine the relationships between languages, and usually take an approach called the comparative method.

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A methodology that has proved useful involves the comparative method and so-called natural experiments.

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Second, Wood deployed what she calls the “comparative method” of Title VII interpretation.

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“If we understand its biology, then we can use the comparative method to understand and predict how it could be used.”

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"If we understand its biology, then we can use the comparative method to understand and predict how it could be used."

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