DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaangle of divergence
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaWhitney (1875)
TitoloThe Life and Growth of language
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[…] there are no limits to the diversity which may arise by discordant growth between languages originally one. Given any angle of divergence, and the law of increasing divergence […] and the distance of the ends of two lines may be made, by their production far enough, to exceed any assignable quantity […].
- Whitney (1875), Pag. 269