| Lemma | variation |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | change (inglese) |
| Rinvii | direction (inglese) morphology (inglese) phonetics (inglese) purposeless flux (inglese) vocabulary (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Languages can change at so many points of phonetics, morphology, and vocabulary that it is not surprising that once the linguistic community is broken it should slip off in different directions. [...] variations [...] are random phenomena, like the waves of the sea, moving backward and forward in purposeless flux. |