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Historical Linguistics and Language Change (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 81) Historical Linguistics and Language Change by Roger Lass
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“But scholars (rightly in principle, if often dreadfully wrongly in practice) abhor vacuums as much as nature does, and sometimes do naughty things to fill
them.”
― Roger Lass, Historical Linguistics and Language Change
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“Every subject has its canonical history, usually sold to beginners as a sequence of revolutionary vignettes, each associated with a ‘pioneer’.”
― Roger Lass, Historical Linguistics and Language Change
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