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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
Format: pdf
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226086658, 9780226086651
Page: 398

Back to the beginning of the Proto-World thread]. Each section starts with an explanation and examples, followed by exercises. Posted by Piotr sporadic and dynamic ways. In this approach, the creation of new languages, whether or not they are labeled “Creole,” sheds lights on the interplay of first- and second-language acquisition as new grammars are built from complex and variable input. But looking at that, we have human languages claimed to lack some of those features. 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. The explanations Following the grammar sections there are 15 vocabulary units linked to various topics, with technology, the mind and history being just a few examples. Some languages can be said to lack aspect; others, tense, at least. The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Languages of the World. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. Perhaps a lack of abstract nouns or metalinguistics? Concrete nouns come from calls, verbs from gestures, with grammar to establish a general logical relationship then what? All tense/aspect/modality is done with separate, orthogonal particles. The first 40 units deal with different aspects of grammar with three to four pages dedicated to each aspect such as the various tenses, articles, and modal verbs. Bybee, Joan L., Revere Perkins, and William Pagliuca (1994) The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world.