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Re: Question on morphological saltation
- To: VRTPALEO@usc.edu
- Subject: Re: Question on morphological saltation
- From: Augusto Haro <augustoharo@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:45:31 -0300
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One fellow of the list made this interesting comment to me privately:
"The staircase metaphor is already present in the word 'gradual'
(Latin: gradus = 'step'). Gradualism implies stepwise change, not
smoothly continuous change."
Is one right if saying nobody EVER proposed there were infinite
morphological intermediates between given ancestral and descendant
morphologies?