Wallace Chafe
American linguist
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Macro-Siouan hypothesis
- In Macro-Siouan hypothesis
…the work of American linguist Wallace Chafe in the 1960s and ’70s. The evidence he presented in favour of the proposed linguistic kinship is held to be unpersuasive by most linguists, who believe that most of the evidence may be explained as accidental similarities, borrowings, and so on, rather than…
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