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ERIC Number: EJ524531
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0388-0001
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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Identifiers: Proto Languages