The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins, William Pagliuca

The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World


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The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins, William Pagliuca
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Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. People, on the other hand, rarely consciously invent new grammatical tenses for their language, much less invent new obligatory grammatical rules for things like evidentiality . Posted by Piotr sporadic and dynamic ways. The evolution of grammar: tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world. Examples: open/close all folders. Some languages can be said to lack aspect; others, tense, at least. Concrete nouns come from calls, verbs from gestures, with grammar to establish a general logical relationship then what? Perhaps a lack of abstract nouns or metalinguistics? The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago: Chicago University Press. The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Languages of the World. But looking at that, we have human languages claimed to lack some of those features. Back to the beginning of the Proto-World thread].