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Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics

Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics

Paperback

Series: Explorations in Linguistic Typology

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0199283087
ISBN13: 9780199283088
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 27 2006
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another. Its editors and authors aim to explain and identify the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and to discover the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another.

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