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Reconstruction

Defined in 2 lectures. Each definition is in that lecture's terms.

Definitions are written by AI from each lecture’s transcript. The time opens the lecture where the lecturer explains it.

  • Hypothesizing the ancestral form of a word or language family based on descendant forms when no direct written records exist.
    11:12Historical LinguisticsNorvin Richards · MIT
  • The rebuilding of the American constitutional system and nation following its near-death experience in the Civil War.
    21:12Whose Constitution Do We Actually Live In?Akhil Reed Amar · Yale University