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 wh
Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics (Oxford Linguistics)
โ Scribed by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 470
- Category
- Library
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