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ISBN-- 9788180280221 In this Seminal study, the author explores the theoretical preciseness of the common nation of linguistic area; He demonstrates that his concept needs to be subjected to acreful analysis as well as comprehensive description to be of use to cultural historians, geographers, and historical linguists. By collating existing descriptive literature, the author attempts t identity and establish syntactic, morphological, and phonological criteria that characterise this area. He Suggests a methodology emphasizing the tracing and mapping of the geographic distribution of these characteristics, to establish their centres and peripheries, which can serve to define a linguistic area by their coincidence.
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