Meaning of glottogony | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The genesis of language, i. e. the emergence of a system of verbal communication from proto-linguistic or non-linguistic means of communication.
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2. The study of language origins.
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Examples

“The origin of words is a question⟳ that now falls within the chapter of “glottogony”, resurrected after decades of inactivity. There are now quite a few glottogonic theories, some of which are also concerned with the origin of words as, for example, the one that argues that original words are connected with phonosymbolism, […]”

“The topic of glottogony has long been a taboo in linguistics, for the very good reason⟳ that it attracts boundless speculation: when Darwinism was freshly en vogue in the 1860s, linguistic debate⟳ was inundated with such proposals to the point⟳ where, in 1866, the Linguistic Society of Paris banned the entire topic as a hopeless exercise […]”

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