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The branching off of language studies into a range of related linguistic disciplines
demonstrates that there is no limit to the number and variety of questions that can be
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approached. Answers are constrained only by one’s choice of definition, purpose, and
characterization of language. Even so, the richness of language research, both past and
present, shows that an answer to one question many times leads to new and more
interesting ones. And, for the most part, language questions are now perceived to pose
dynamic challenges in and among subfields of linguistics. For example, why should we
be concerned about the extinction of languages? How did spoken languages evolve?
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