| Lemma | process of substraction |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Whitney (1875) |
| Titolo | The Life and Growth of language |
| Sinonimi | loss (inglese) |
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| Citazioni | […] loss of what had constituted the material of a language was an appreciable element in that constant change and development which we called its growth. Even such a process of subtraction is fairly enough to be reckoned as a part of growth; just as the growth of organic beings consists in removal as well as in resupply […] the loss might consist either in the disappearance of complete words from a vocabulary, or in the disappearance of the signs of grammatical distinction. |