" == Trask is the only source to mention size == Trask stands alone in describing this in terms of size: *P.H. Matthews, Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics (2007, Oxford) uses ""macrofamily"" solely for a proposed unit that combines widely accepted language families with no reference to size. *Lyle Campbell & Mauricio J. Mixco, A Glossary of Historical Linguistics (2007, Utah) uses ""macrofamily"" solely for proposed and controversial units with no reference to size. *David Crystal, A Dictionary of Linguistics & Phonetics (2003, Blackwell) does not use ""macrofamily"", but uses ""phylum"" and ""macrophylum"" in the same senseproposed units with deep time depth above the
" == Trask is the only source to mention size == Trask stands alone in describing this in terms of size: *P.H. Matthews, Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics (2007, Oxford) uses ""macrofamily"" solely for a proposed unit that combines widely accepted language families with no reference to size. *Lyle Campbell & Mauricio J. Mixco, A Glossary of Historical Linguistics (2007, Utah) uses ""macrofamily"" solely for proposed and controversial units with no reference to size. *David Crystal, A Dictionary of Linguistics & Phonetics (2003, Blackwell) does not use ""macrofamily"", but uses ""phylum"" and ""macrophylum"" in the same senseproposed units with deep time depth above the "