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It is obviously a truism to state that ever since man directed his attention to language, he was puzzled by the problem of its diversification - hence the story of the tower of Babel.
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third person past singular, verbal ablaut, morphophonological analysis, rule reordering, der idg, linguistic paleontology, deductive change, datable documents, orthographic evidence, creole studies, synchronic rules, morphological function, linguistic geography, syntactic change, phonemic change, contact linguistics, analogical change, past plural, comparative reconstruction, phonological change, linguistic interference, alternation types, language contact, lexical diffusion, consonant shift
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New York, Old English, The Hague, Cambridge University Press, Old High German, Ann Arbor, Carl Winter, Middle English, Congress of Linguists, Indiana University Press, United States, University of Texas Press, American English, John Benjamins, South Asia, University of Pennsylvania Press, William Labov, Chicago Linguistic Society, Englewood Cliffs, Old French, Old Saxon, World War, Hugo Schuchardt, Kurylowicz's Principle, North America
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