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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 focuses on Bacon's intentionalist approach in speculative grammar, as well as his contributions to the fields of semantics, semiotics, evolutionary linguistics and universal grammar. People, on the other hand, rarely consciously invent new grammatical tenses for their language, much less invent new obligatory grammatical rules for things like evidentiality . 1994 The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. While many of his writings were composed with an eye towards theological questions such as biblical exegesis, he also considered pedagogical, ethical and political aspects of language, such as how language can be used to convert infidels or provide moral order for society. 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). It also broadens two societies' views of the world. Examples: open/close all folders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Modeling implies some And the reason that continuous forms are less often used with mental process verbs is that states of knowledge tend not to be dynamic or evolving (a core meaning of progressive aspect) — you either love something or you don't. The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Languages of the World. This is only to be expected, since this is a pedagogic grammar – one that models the target language for the learner, rather than one that describes its infinite variety for the specialist. 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.