Proto-Languages in Prehistory: Reality and Reconstruction.

Pulgram, Ernst

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ERIC Number: EJ524531

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Publication Date: 1995

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Proto-Languages in Prehistory: Reality and Reconstruction.

Pulgram, Ernst

Language Sciences, v17 n3 p223-39 Jul 1995

The study discusses the position of the protolanguage in the hierarchy formed by idiolect, dialect, and diasystem. The article emphasizes that linguistic study contains a great many diachronic events and hypothesized synchronic features that are implausible, yet possible. (30 references) (CK)

Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Indo European Languages, Language Patterns, Language Research, Latin, Romance Languages

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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