| 单词 | family-tree theory |
| 释义 | family-tree theory /fam"euh lee tree", fam"lee-/, Historical Ling. a theory that describes language change in terms of genetically related languages developing in successive splits from a common parent language, such as Indo-European, as depicted by a family tree diagram. Cf. wave theory. [1930-35] |
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