Cognitive and Language Sciences | Article | Published 2017
After the undivided domination of linguistics in the first half of the 20th century, the problems of synchronous linguistics, the second half was marked by an increase in interest in diachronic linguistics, the problems of linguistic changes and transformations in time. This was a return, already on a new methodological level, to the development of problems that arose in the classical, comparative-historical linguistics of the last century.