NEW PATTERNS AND APPROACHES TO COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS
NEW PATTERNS AND APPROACHES TO COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the practical relationship between the historical analysis of language facts and other scientific domains. References to the historical evolution of the name of the field are followed by the major steps that it took to shape new questions that skewed its historiography. In the third part the spotlight falls on the new paths by which comparative linguistics widens its field and associates the historical study of languages to other domains, making place to brand-new reinterpretation and recontextualization of old information through advanced processes of reasoning that reveal different objects of inquiry. The new research paradigms yield insights into the development stages of culture and civilization phenomena and exploit hypothesis of their future evolution.

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