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As opposed to static approaches, the dynamic approach (DA) emphatically distances itself from the routinised use of the concept of (as in the or language), the sole reliance on the dichotomised model of language history explained by vertical change (the approach) and horizontal change (the contact approach), and the eccentrification of creole language emergence. The notion of a DA to language surfaced at several points in time, reaching two climaxes, namely the advent of (Schmidt 1872) and the incorporation of variation in the machinery of a modular approach to grammar (Bailey 1973; Bickerton 1971; Seuren 1982). In a nutshell, the DA advocates for the polylectal nature of linguistic competence (in the transformationalist/generative semantic sense), the fluid nature of language variation over time and space, as well as for the notions of and the as guiding forces throughout the history of languoids.

In this article, the basic tenets of this approach are outlined, embedded in a historical frame within the advent of and variation-centred approaches to language. These tenets are illustrated with case studies from languoids used in Northwestern Amazonia, Balgo in Western Australia, as well as Senegambia in West Africa.

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