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.

In another department of the painter's art, the comparative method of study is no less suggestive.

The "comparative method" has assumed several different forms.

Hayley perhaps alone, or almost alone, is rebel to the comparative method.

Another general line of attack worthy to be mentioned alongside of the experimental is the comparative method.

Now the science of law must, of necessity, be a national one, even if at the same time it employs the comparative method.

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