The goal of this chapter is to re-examine areal linguistics and in doing so to arrive at a clearer understanding of the notion of ‘linguistic area’. The conclusion reached is that it is individual historical events of diffusion that count, not the post hoc attempts to impose geographical order on varied conglomerations of these borrowings. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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