Comparative/contrastive linguistics

[Nanantsa]

What is the difference between comparative linguistics and contrastive linguistics?

 

[emsr2d2]

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[probus]

I found the following on researchgate.net.

"Comparative linguistics compares and contrasts genetically-related languages diachronically (over time), whereas contrastive linguistics compares and contrasts languages which are culturally related (whether they're genetically related or not!)."

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