[...] all languages differ from one another but that certain ones differ far more than others. This is tantamount to saying that it is possible to group them into morphological types. - Sapir (1921), a pag.121 [...] if we take great groups of genetically related languages, we find that as we pass from one to another or trace the course of their development we frequently encounter a gradual change of morphological type. - Sapir (1921), a pag.144
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