...This book has shown how the comparative method derived from historical linguistics can be applied to language acquisition research. While the comparative method in historical linguistics aims to reconstruct the history of genetically related languages, the comparative method can redirect the focus...

...This chapter discusses the comparative method of crosslinguistic research on language acquisition. It first considers the comparative method of historical linguistics, which focuses on reconstructing the sounds, words, and grammar of an ancestral language from the linguistic features retained...

... Sweet Henry nation-building deep history typology structuralism teleology historical linguistics Indo-European neogrammarians You must collect things for reasons you don’t yet understand. —Daniel J. Boorstin A conception can be understood only through its history. —Auguste Comte Some three...