Babel bobbles. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor) From: Science News | Date: July 13, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Linguistic cladistics? Based on vocabulary? Linguistic froth, such as loan words from other languages, frequently becomes a source of heated debate ("Search for the Tree of Babel," SN: 5/25/02, p. 328). The deep structures of language that can provide a relatively stable field for analysis are more subtle. These include verb-substantive-object order, verbs of giving or receiving, noun declensions, and the like. But even these are subject to extreme transformations. Besides, any gen...

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