What are the most fascinating things you’ve learned studying linguistics?

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Posted in categories: General Language, 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.

Answered 2016-08-31
[Originally posted on http://quora.com/What-are-the-most-fascinating-things-youve-learned-studying-linguistics/answer/Nick-Nicholas-5]

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