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

It also broadens two societies' views 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. They say in 3.3.1 that “In pidginization there is massive simplification including the loss of inflections” but “A creole, in contrast, generates grammatical categories such as number, tense, aspect, and modality” (57). I think this To build off what you said about the Cajuns in Louisiana, the show Swamp People on the history channel is a great example of how creolization can effect a language. 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. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. This encourages the application of a “picture theory” of language: words “mirror” real world objects or states of affairs and the meaning of a word (or any linguistic expression) consists of its truth conditions (Wittgenstein, 2001; Ayer, 1987). Studies in Language 13: 51–103. 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. Each section starts with an explanation and examples, followed by exercises. Articles, gender/classifiers, case markers, pronouns/agreement, speech-act markers, tense-aspect-modality, complementizers and subordinators', T. The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. 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. 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.