Philologists (defined as the study of literary texts) have for a long time documented the variety of languages, the relative distance between them, their plausible historical connections, as well as established a catalog of extant grammatical systems.
But at some point linguists decided to explain linguistic structure, which in effect meant this: underneath the luxuriant variety of systems, there are a few underlying rules. These rules do not come from nowhere: they are the consequence of how human brains function
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