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

Name: Evolution of Grammar Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World
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ISBN: 9780226086651

ISBN-10: 0226086658

ISBN-13: 9780226086651

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Authors: Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins, William Pagliuca

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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 grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths…

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List price: $37.50
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 420
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Figures and Tables


Preface and Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



Theoretical Background



Method Used in the Study



Anterior, Perfective, and Related Senses



A Quantitative Approach to Grammaticization



Progressive, Imperfective, Present, and Related Senses



Mood and Modality



Future



Mechanisms of Semantic Change



Gramcats Sampling Procedure



Meaning Labels



Sources of Language Data


Bibliography for Gramcats Sample


References


Author Index


Languages Index


Subject Index