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Malkiel, Yakov – Lingua, 1975
Discusses the estrangement between etymology and modern linguistics, and concludes that a reconciliation between spatio-temporal linguistics and etymology must occur, because without it, both disciplines are doomed to inanition. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology, Glottochronology