Fill in the Blanks Comparative grammarOnline version Complete the following definitions and concepts with the words to the right. by Rolando Morales 1 techniques analysis constructs grammar Europe arbitrariness relationships stages linguistics form languages ancestor comparison comparative permits century meanin 19th languages The method is a set of , developed over more than a and a half , that us to recover linguistic of earlier , usually unattested , in a family of related . Comparative is the branch of primarily concerned with the and of the grammatical structures of related languages or dialects . It is the study of the or correspondences between two or more languages and the techniques used to discover whether the have a common . Comparative grammar was the most important branch of linguistics in the century in . The comparative method relies on certain characteristics of language and language change in order to work . One important factor is , of course , the of the relationship between phonological and