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The diachronic study of language and its evolution.
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How time of birth and death of a languages are estimated?
Language is a continuum, and not something that has an absolute, well-defined beginning (or end, for that matter).
Think of a language like you would a species of animal or plant. There was no first …
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Are there any languages with the equivalent of "both" for three items?
When I was studying Generalized Quantifier Theory as part of a Formal Semantics class a few years ago in college, this came up. If I recall correctly, the professor said that there weren't any languag …
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Languages that are gaining morphological distinctions
[...] the word initial inflections in verbs in Irish came from phonological interaction between a pronoun and the following verb [...]
I'm not quite sure what you mean here.
Irish is VSO. As suc …
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