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By Henning Andersen

Every language comprises layers of lexical and grammatical parts that entered it at diversified occasions within the kind of far away previous. accordingly, for classes previous our earliest ancient documentation, linguistic stratigraphy — the systematic learn of such layers — may well yield information regarding the prehistory of a given culture of talking in quite a few methods. for example, abnormal phonological reflexes could be proof of the convergence of numerous dialects within the formation of a language, and layers of fabric from various resource languages may possibly shape a list of fixing cultural contacts some time past. during this quantity are mentioned prior difficulties and present advances within the stratigraphy of Indo-European, African, Southeast Asian, Australian, Oceanic, eastern, and Meso-American languages.

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It similarly seems to rely on a monogenetic explanation of fragmentary linguistic data where we might equally expect, or even prefer, a polygenetic explanation —particularly so given the geographical expanse involved. Krahe's hydronymic theory appears to represent little more than an idée fixe, a tendentious, idealized picture of ancient Europe, and one, moreover, which ultimately only represents a recycled form of Celto-Ligurian and Illyro-Venetic. 8. The hegemonic shadow De Jubainville's hegemonic theory proper has had a less metamorphic journey.

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