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The Relevance of Comparative and Historical Data for the Description and Definition of a Language. York Papers in Linguistics; No. 6.
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Posner, R. – 1976
Sometimes descriptions of known facts about a language fail to be explanatory in a satisfying way, because they ignore parallelisms in related languages, including chronologically earlier stages of the same language. This article examines several Romance languages and dialects in terms of similarities in morphological evolutionary development.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects