Historical linguistics is the study of how languages change over time and of their relationships with other languages.All languages change over time, and not randomly. There are many patterns and generalizations we can make upon examining the histories of various languages. Looking for these historical patterns of languages falls within the general aim of linguistics: to find patterns in human languages in general
Linguistics 201, Detmar Meurers Handout 14 (April 21, 2004
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