Grammaticalization and language evolution: Focusing the debate
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DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2017.03.003
Abstract: Abstract Reconstructions of the languages spoken by first modern humans based on grammaticalization theory rely on the assumption that the involved cognitive capacities and the motivations for grammaticalizing a language were the same in the… read more here.
Keywords: focusing debate; language; evolution focusing; grammaticalization ... See more keywords