| 单词 | substratum theory |
| 释义 | > as lemmassubstratum theory substratum theory n. Linguistics a theory that attributes linguistic change to the influence of a substrate language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > [noun] > linguistic change > theories of polygenesis1863 Wellentheorie1886 substratum theory1923 neo-linguistics1931 wave theory1933 monogenesis1936 Stammbaumtheorie1954 1923 Mod. Lang. Rev. 18 92 Chapter XI..sharply attacks the overstraining of the racial substratum theory by recent philologists with special reference to the fronting of Latin ū in the Romance and Celtic languages and to Feist's and Wessely's explanations of the Germanic shifts. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xxi. 386 The substratum theory attributes sound-change to transference of language: a community which adopts a new language will speak it..with the phonetics of its mother-tongue. 1996 Language 72 821 The substratum theory of influences from indigenous or African languages. < as lemmas |
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