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1. Syntactical Neighborhood

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   The Hypothesis of Neighborhood Density and Temporal Lag
   A controversial adjunct to the theory, the Lagging Neighbor Hypothesis (LNH), proposes that the inherent age of a lexeme influences how receptive it is to neighboring influence. Lexemes that have persisted in the language corpus for over four centuries are posited to possess a lower susceptibility coefficient ($\kappa$) to contextual modification, effectively creating an 'inert core' around which newer terminology shifts.
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