The Comparative Method Reviewed: Regularity and Irregularity in Language Change by Mark Durie, Malcolm Ross

The Comparative Method Reviewed: Regularity and Irregularity in Language Change

Mark Durie, Malcolm Ross

336 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

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Historical reconstruction of languages relies on the comparative method, which itself depends on the notion of the regularity of change. The regularity of sound change is the famous Neogrammarian Hypothesis: "sound change takes place according to ...

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