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Darwin-L Message Log 4:71 (December 1993)
Academic Discussion on the History and Theory of the Historical Sciences
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<4:71>From GA3704@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU Fri Dec 17 17:11:23 1993 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 17:04:59 CST From: "Margaret E. Winters" <GA3704@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU> To: darwin-l@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu Subject: ecology Salikoko Mufwene's comment about the relativistic nature of environments made me think of another aspect of this question. His example of French and Latin as influences on the development of relative clauses in English can be interpreted as falling, at least in part, within the question of societal ecology even though the result is a structural/systematic change. In order for French and Latin to be influencial, the English-speaking society of the time had to view those languages as conferring some kind of prestige, whatever its nature. Otherwise the borrowing would not have occurred. I suspect I may be overstating in the specifics of this example, but would like to make the wider point that the line between systematic and societal ecology (as proposed by Tom Cravens) is not always a clear one. Margaret Winters
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