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A-Z 477ReferencesBergsland, K. and H.Vogt. 1962. On the validity of glottochronology. Current Anthropology 3.115–53.Swadesh, M. 1952. Lexicostatistic dating of prehistoric ethnic contacts. Proceedings of theAmerican Philological Society 96. 452–63.lexicostatisticsgnomic [Grk‘judgment, (general)opinion’]Verbal aspect which expresses ‘eternal’ or ‘timeless’ truths (e.g. Snow is white) andforms a subgroup of iterative verbs ( iterative vs semelfactive).Referencesgeneric 2 Goajiro Arawakangoalcase grammarGod’s truth vs hocuspocusFacetious term for the controversy within distributionalism over the status of system andstructure in language. The hocuspocus position uses W.F.Twaddell’s definition of thephoneme as a ‘fictitious unit,’ which the linguist distills from a body of data on the basisof particular rules and operations. The ‘God’s truth’ linguists, however, maintain thatsystem and structure really do occur in the data and are not merely obtained throughsleight of hand. On the one hand, the rules criticized by the hocuspocus supporters are notarbitrary, but rather mechanically and scientifically verifiable; on the other hand, the