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



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


The working The chapter discusses how “language evolution” is to be defined in this study, where it is only used to describe conditions within a 5/000-7,000 year time depth. Research from top linguistics scholars; Detailed analysis of phonology, morphology, and syntax of ancient languages; Valuable discussions for students at introductory and scholarly levels by Blane Conklin; Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized by Francis I. Dean Forbes; Time and the Biblical Hebrew Verb: The Expression of Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Biblical Hebrew by John A. One of the most interesting, and no doubt controversial, aspects of the book is the discussion of markedness. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. The different types of explanation in linguistics are discussed, along with the idea that a simpler grammar is one that accounts for more things with less duplication. Perkins, and Willmott Pagliuca, The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World (Chicago/London 1994): 10-11. Bybee, John L., William Pagliuca, and Revere Perkins 1991 The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Language of the World. This is a cross-linguistically common development: see J. They win if the first creole, the barmaids' milk language, was SVO with largely Norse grammar and some Anglo-Saxon vocabulary. Cook; Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew edited by Cynthia L. English, however, has drifted more than many other Indo-European languages towards the isolating model of morphology, where grammatical notions of tense, aspect, number, person etc.

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