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

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

William Pagliuca, Revere Perkins, Joan L. Bybee

420 pages first pub 1994 (view editions)

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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 gramma...

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