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Georg Holzer's book Das Erschließen unbelegter Sprachen. Zu den theoretischen Grundlagen der genetischen Linguistik, Schriften über Sprachen und Texte 1 (Peter Lang, Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 1996) is an insightful theoretical work which with uncompromising persistence defines the notion of genetic relationships between languages in a new way. The author first of all tries to present clearly two basic elements in the relation imposed on them: the element of linguistic change based on vocal rights, conditioning the linguistic passage of time, and the element of isogloss, defining the spreading of a linguistic territory in its internal distribution. The Polish version of the work presents the general assumptions of this innovative concept, in particulars, however, referring to the original German exposition.
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