Linguistics & Language · Historical & Comparative Linguistics
A topic within Historical & Comparative Linguistics, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
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Edward Sapir
Argues that languages can be classified by the formal type of structure they use to build words and sentences, independent of whether they are historically related.
about 5 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026Jeff Good
Reassesses Greenberg's Niger-Congo, the largest of his four African families, distinguishing the referential label covering 1500-plus languages from the much narrower core for which a genealogical relationship is actually well supported.