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
____________________
