In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or...

Comparative politics is a field in political science characterized either by the use of the comparative method or other empirical methods to explore politics...

comparative methods (PCMs) use information on the historical relationships of lineages (phylogenies) to test evolutionary hypotheses. The comparative...

the lexicon of two or more languages using techniques such as the comparative method. In principle, every difference between two related languages should...

in one study. When it comes to method, the majority agreement is that there is no methodology peculiar to comparative research. The multidisciplinary...

Glaser and Strauss developed the constant comparative method which later became known as the grounded theory method. They summarized their research in the...

faculty", or the "language instinct". The comparative method of crosslinguistic research applies the comparative method used in historical linguistics to psycholinguistic...

In statistics, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a data analysis based on set theory to examine the relationship of conditions to outcome. QCA...

use of the comparative method of linguistic analysis. In order to test the hypothesis that two languages are related, the comparative method begins with...

partially attested at best. They are reconstructed by way of the comparative method. In the family tree metaphor, a proto-language can be called a mother...