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Language Change
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Abstract

Language change occurs along at least four dimensions of variation: diachronic, diatopic, diastratic and diaphasic. Language change over time is studied by historical linguistics, aiming at the reconstruction of the ancestral proto-language. In the case of the Indo-European language family,Greek has an important place p…

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Anna Pompei, “Language Change”, in: Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, General Editor: Georgios K. Giannakis. Consulted online on 03 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-448X_eagll_COM_00000201>
First published online: 2014



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