| 单词 | linguistic stock |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslinguistic stock linguistic stock n. [after French souche de langues (1846 in the passage translated in quot. 1846)] Linguistics a group of language families sharing features thought to indicate a shared origin. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > family of languages stocka1727 family1762 linguistic stock1846 linguistic family1847 language group1853 language family1863 Rhaeto-Etruscan1939 macrophylum1958 phylum1958 1846 E. J. Sabine tr. A. von Humboldt Cosmos I. 354 Similarly recurring phenomena; viz. in one and the same race, two or more entirely different families of languages; and in nations differing widely in origin, idioms belonging to the same linguistic stock [Fr. souche de langues]. 1921 E. Sapir Lang. x. 221 What are the most inclusive linguistic groupings, the ‘linguistic stocks’, and what is the distribution of each. 1953 R. L. Beals & H. Hoijer Introd. Anthropol. xvii. 524 As more and more languages are studied and compared intensively with each other, we may expect that the number of linguistic stocks will decrease. 2011 D. H. Kelley & E. F. Milone Exploring Anc. Skies ii. xi. 338/2 The Melanesian and Polynesian language families are grouped together within the great Austronesian linguistic stock. < as lemmas |
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