glottogony


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glottogony

the study of the origin of language. — glottogonic, adj.
See also: Language
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Thus there is no glottogony, only "schematogony", the theory of the diachronic development of sentence patterns.
Unmarked object in the Uralic languages. A diachronic typological approach

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