Something else I've been noticing with that one dead language that I've been studying a lot recently is how many academics narrowly divide up chronological stages, and never look to either side...
That makes sense for finding small things to say quickly, but you can't really do the large-scale diachronic work that the field needs.
It's like the whole professional academic system militates against the type of skills-building and broad thinking that you really need to critically grapple with material, and break down bad theories and build up new ones.
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