internal reconstruction

English

Noun

internal reconstruction (countable and uncountable, plural internal reconstructions) (linguistics)

  1. (uncountable) A method of reconstructing an earlier form of a language using only evidence from that language, as opposed to the comparative method.
  2. (countable) A reconstruction created by this means.
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