What is it about?
review article on two edited books about cyclicity in historical linguistics edited by Elly van Gelderen.
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Why is it important?
a unique opportunity to weigh in on an important, but problematic, concept in historical linguistics. Several logically distinct forms of cyclicity are distinguished in the review.
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Cyclicity turns out to be a rather shaky concept in historical linguistics.
Jeffrey Heath
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This page is a summary of: Cyclical ups and downs, Studies in Language, December 2017, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/sl.16077.hea.
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