Uniformitarian Principle (linguistics)
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Uniformitarian Principle (linguistics)
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The Uniformitarian Principle is a key hypothesis in the study of linguistics and language change today. Peter Trudgill calls the uniformitarian principle "one of the fundamental bases of modern historical linguistics," which he characterizes, other things being equal, as the principle "that knowledge of processes that operated in the past can be inferred by observing ongoing processes in the present." It is the linguistic adaptation of a widespread principle in the sciences, there usually known
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2024-09-04T21:03:20Z
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2024-09-05T19:02:24Z
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