Historical and Comparative Linguistics

Genealogical and areal study of languages: Schleicher's Stammbaum (1853), Schmidt's wave theory (1872), Schuchardt's mixed languages (1884), Kopitar on the Balkans (1829), Jespersen on origins. The tree drawn and then corrected by the wave: the linguistic arm of 'merges over splits'.

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