"megalocomparison" meaning in English

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          "text": "Megalocomparison takes on any more remote relationship, where sound-correspondences are not regular and putative cognates are few, so that chance rivals genetic relationship as the explanation for perceived similarities.",
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          "ref": "1994, J. T. Katz, “Review of Explanation in Historical Linguistics by G. W. Davis & G. K. Iverson”, in Language, volume 70, number 1, →DOI, pages 199–200:",
          "text": "There have been many recent broadsides on megalocomparison, and those who still think them inappropriate may find this paper a revelation[…]",
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          "text": "It seems to be part of a larger project of megalo-comparison whose aim is ultimately to reduce the number of language families in the world to a much smaller number than is now normally accepted.",
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