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This book, first published in 1990, is a study of both the specific syntactic changes in the more recent stages of Greek and of the nature of syntactic change i
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New languages are constantly emerging, as existing languages diverge into different forms. To explain this fascinating process, we need to understand how langua
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Historical linguistics, the oldest field in linguistics, has been traditionally dominated by phonological and etymological investigations. Only in the late twen
Deconstructing Morphology
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