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What are the most fascinating things you’ve learned studying linguistics?
Me, personally?
That the same changes happen, again and again, from language to language to language. The same grammaticalisations; the same sound changes; the same semantic changes; the same syntactic changes; the same metaphors.
Which is little to do with Universal Grammar, and a lot to do with universals of cognition and articulation.
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