Abstract
This historical linguistic inquiry has as its main purpose the development of a serious debate on the
tendency for a linguistic form or structure to revert to a historically antecedent model and remake
itself in its older image. The undertaking is ambitious enough to advance the following line-up of
propositions: 1. the paper takes an analytical look at a distinct number of hard facts adducible in
support of the view that the above-synopsized tendency, termed remaking, is a dynamic and
pervasive driving force motivating language change; 2. based on the scrutiny of marked examples
available to observation, the paper argues that the same tendency is ineluctably accountable for the
uninterrupted revitalization of language and its perpetual vibrancy and reasons that this movement
towards self-regeneration innate in language should be defined as language-internal creativity
surviving through time; 3. it is maintained that almost like a design feature, the tendency in question
is intrinsic to language and is set in motion whenever the need for it is felt. Amid the plurality of
comparable postulates and proposals already known to the realm of historical linguistics, the
contention here is unmatched in the extent to which it stresses and dilates on the incrementally
procreative regeneration (spiral development) recognizable in the predominant type of recurrence
of antecedent models.
