Creole Studies and Historical Linguistics: Renewing Our Vows
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Historical Linguistics
One remarkably striking observation about language, seemingly trivial but actually quite important, is that languages change through time. It is at least conceivable that language could remain unchanged over time, as is the case with some other human institutions, e.g. various tabus or the rules to come games, and with some aspects of human communication systems, e.g. Morse Code or the value of...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
سال: 1995
ISSN: 2377-1666,0363-2946
DOI: 10.3765/bls.v21i1.1390