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

The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins, William Pagliuca ebook
ISBN: 0226086658, 9780226086651
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Format: pdf
Page: 398

This is a cross-linguistically common development: see J. Thanks for Even though I share the concern for languages lost to history, I can't help thinking about one aspect, that seems to get left out of this discussion time and again. That is part of the “whole way of life, a whole set of solutions to problems, a whole classification system and body of knowledge about the natural world, a whole calendar system, a whole complex of myths, folktales, and songs,” that I also believe in preserving from my own language and culture. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. Bybee, Joan, Revere Perkins, and William Pagliuca 1994 The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. Perkins, and Willmott Pagliuca, The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World (Chicago/London 1994): 10-11. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bybee, Joan; Perkins, Revere, & Pagliuca, William. Studies in Language 13: 51–103. Modality in grammar and discourse.