Subgrouping of Nine Philippine Languages

BY J. C. ANCEAUX Since the appearance of Brugmann''s famous article on the relation­ ships of the Indo-European languages in 1884, the subject of sub­ grouping of languages as a methodological problem has been raised only occasionally. To this apparent lack of interest in a major point in comparative linguistics several causes can be assigned. One of them is that a consensus has been reached about...