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neo-ˈlinguist
Also neolinguist.
[f. neo- + linguist.]
A member of a school of linguistics which arose in opposition to the neo-grammarians, rejecting the claim that phonetic laws have no exception, and maintaining that linguistic change results from individual innovation. So neo-linˈguistic a.; neo-linˈguistics n. pl.
[1925M. Bartoli (title) Introduzione alla neolinguistica.] 1937J. Orr tr. Iordan's Introd. Romance Linguistics i. 29 Here.. is..the source of the misunderstanding between the neo-linguists..and the Italian neo-grammarians of to-day, with regard to their attitude towards Ascoli. Ibid. iii. 273 The so-called Neo-linguistic School, whose tenets..are little more than a somewhat hard-and-fast formulation of certain of Gilliéron's ideas. 1944Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. LXIV. 177 The areal theory of linguistics..has been developed and brought into a system by the Italian neolinguistic school. 1946Language XXII. 273 Bartoli's ‘Neo-Linguistics’ has both a negative and a positive side. 1953J. H. Greenberg in A. L. Kroeber Anthropology Today 265/1 The reconstructions of the neo-linguistic school are not generally accepted by other scholars. 1972Language XLVIII. 439 The Neo-Humboldtians in Germany and the Neolinguists in Italy. |