January 1916
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... The scenario portrayed by repeated splits with complete loss of contact is therefore quite unrealistic. Proponents of the Wave theory (Schmidt, 1872;Saussure, 1916), observing that the tree model is unsuitable for representing the genealogy of modern languages, addressed this difficulty by spinning a new metaphor: innovations are like waves, which happen independently, imprinting their marks on the landscape; and crucially, these successive waves of innovations often define intersecting patterns, which cannot be represented with a tree (François, 2014). The geography of these innovations can be reconstructed by historical linguists, provided they have access to enough relevant data. ...
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