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Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages.
Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages.
Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states.
The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.
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In its broadest interpretation, the goal of linguistics is to discover how human languages are alike and how they differ, and to propose and test theories that explain the similarities and differences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
anterior grams, perfective grams, parallel reduction hypothesis, grammaticization path, formal grammaticization, young anteriors, inflectional grams, aspectual futures, progressive grams, hodiernal past, more grammaticized, future grams, meaning covary, inferred certainty, overt grams, stative auxiliaries, total reduplication, completive sense, verbal grams, secondary subgroup, propositional scope, older grams, grammaticization process, semantic age, lexical sources Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tok Pisin, Old English, Island Carib, Related String Expression, Middle English, Modern English, Modern Greek, British English, English Perfect, American English, Gugu-Yalanji Purposive, Passé Composé, Old Norse New!
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In its broadest interpretation, the goal of linguistics is to discover how human languages are alike and how they differ, and to propose and test theories that explain the similarities and differences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
anterior grams, perfective grams, parallel reduction hypothesis, grammaticization path, formal grammaticization, young anteriors, inflectional grams, aspectual futures, progressive grams, hodiernal past, more grammaticized, future grams, meaning covary, inferred certainty, overt grams, stative auxiliaries, total reduplication, completive sense, verbal grams, secondary subgroup, propositional scope, older grams, grammaticization process, semantic age, lexical sources Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tok Pisin, Old English, Island Carib, Related String Expression, Middle English, Modern English, Modern Greek, British English, English Perfect, American English, Gugu-Yalanji Purposive, Passé Composé, Old Norse New!
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- Historical Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Theodora Bynon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mood and Modality (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by F. R. Palmer on page 176, and Back Matter
- Teach Yourself Danish by H. A. Koefoed in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Handbook of Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin) (Pacific linguistics) by S. A. Wurm in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- West Greenlandic (Croom Helm Descriptive Grammars) by Micheal D. Fortescue in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Grammaticalization (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Paul J. Hopper on page 30, and Back Matter
- Studies On Reduplication (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology) by Veronika Mattes on page 311, and page 344
- Asymmetry in Morphology (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) by Anna-Maria Di Sciullo in Back Matter
- Conditionals and Prediction: Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by Barbara Dancygier on page 196
- The Progressive in 19th-Century English: A Process of Integration (Language and Computers, 54) (Language & Computers) by Erik Smitterberg in Back Matter
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