internal reconstruction (English, noun)
expansion: internal reconstruction (countable and uncountable, plural internal reconstructions)
expansion: (linguistics)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A method of reconstructing an earlier form of a language using only evidence from that language, as opposed to the comparative method.
tags: uncountable
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A reconstruction created by this means.
tags: countable
Forms:
form: internal reconstructions
tags: plural