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- not comparablehuman sciencesOf or pertaining to the origin of speech.
The two layers of speech are also called — if one looks at speech from a glottogenetic point of view — 'impositions'.
1977, C.H.M. Versteegh, Greek Elements in Arabic Linguistic Thinking, →ISBN, page 1662 more examples
Even though evolutionary continuity implies the existence of an interface between the archaeolinguistic and glottogenetic stages, this interface has to be very differently structured from the ones between the other stages.
1994, I. Hegedüs, "Principles for palaeolinguistic reconstruction," in Archaeology and Language (edited by Roger M Blench and Matthew Spriggs), page 70Modern interpreters have often branded the very notion of impositio as a sign of intellectualism (as if names could be invented 'on paper'!) or glottogenetic naïveté.
2004, Lia Formigari, A History of Language Philosophies, →ISBN, page 67
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