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Publication details [#32659]

Nerlich, Brigitte. 1989. The evolution of the concept of "linguistic evolution" in the 19th and 20th century. Lingua 77 (2) : 101–112.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | language change | linguistics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0024-3841

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper argues that a sound application of the theory of variation, selection and adaptation is still missing in theories of language evolution and change.