The spiral of evolution
The spiral of evolution
Author(s): Zuzana TopolińskaSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: direction of the linguistic evolution; multilingual environment
Summary/Abstract: The author discusses semantic impulses responsible for the striking grammatical parallelisms between the different linguistic codes evolving in a multilingual environment: a) English and West European Romance languages, on the one hand, and b) members of the so called Balkan Linguistic League, on the other hand.
Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
- Issue Year: 132/2015
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 37-42
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English