Cladistic language concepts

Roger Wright Roger.Wright at liverpool.ac.uk
Mon Oct 12 13:08:12 UTC 1998


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Benji Wald says:
 
>On the contrary, up
>to the present, history indicates the continual long-term fragmentation of
>languages and destruction of mutual intelligibility.
 
 
Yes; nicely put. "Up to the present" --
There's a good case for saying this may never happen again.
                                                        RW



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