More on word order, morphological types and historical change

Oct 24, 2011 by

In a comment to the previous posting, Venelina Dimitrova raised a number of interesting issues, which I thought it would be best to address in a separate posting rather than in the comment section. 1. Is there a correlation between...

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Typological features and tracing language history

Jul 26, 2010 by

Generally speaking, historical linguistics tries to elucidate patterns of language change and to determine language relatedness. Most of this work, starting with the work of earliest philologists such as James Parsons and William...

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