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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Isidore Dyen
Isidore Dyen
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Yale University
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It is only human perhaps to approach a problem from the point of view of a discipline one knows and to find this approach illuminating and the approach from any other discipline obfuscating. Nevertheless some scholars have been able to utilize without confusion the results of other disciplines. Still others have wisely admitted their incompetence to control the results of the other disciplines and have ignored them entirely and proceeded to deal with their problem in their own way.

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Research Article
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , October 1960 , pp. 69 - 73
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1960

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1 Meillet, A. et Cohen, M., Les langues du monde (Paris, 1952), pp. 529–70Google Scholar.

2 For a fuller statement than the following of the implications of this principle see Dyen, I., “Language Distribution and Migration Theory”, Language, 32 (1956), pp. 611–26CrossRefGoogle Scholar. An application appears in JrDiebold, A. Richard,, “Determining the Centers of Dispersal of Language Groups”, IJAL, 26 (1960), pp. 1–10Google Scholar.

3 Scientific American, 199 (1958), pp. 63–74CrossRefGoogle Scholar.