Columbia Encyclopedia World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. An Introduction to the Study of Speech. Page 220 owing to the suggestive influence of neighboring languages. So long as such direct historical testimony as we have gives us no really convincing examples of profound morphological influence by diffusion, we shall do well not to put too much reliance in diffusion theories.
Language is probably the most self-contained, the most massively resistant of all social phenomena.
It is easier to kill it off than to disintegrate its individual form. Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore .