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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

Reference, although possibly the whole thing languages could lexicalise years reference, i.e. Bybee, John L., William Pagliuca, and Revere Perkins 1991 The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Language of the World. For example, the evolution of the grammatical gender system in Indic languages indicates that Romani must have been spoken in India around 1000 CE. Overseas vs up-to-date past), or the ensuing (e.g. In depth knowledge about vs far-off future). 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. 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. Perkins, and Willmott Pagliuca, The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World (Chicago/London 1994): 10-11. Ardhamagadhi, as with all of the Prakrits of North India, began to give way to what are called Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian, wrote a modern Bengali grammar A Grammar of the Bengal Language (1778), that used Bengali types in print for the first time. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Magadhi Prakrit, the earliest recorded spoken language in the region and the language of the Buddha, had evolved into Ardhamagadhi ("Half Magadhi") in the early part of the first millennium C.E. This is a cross-linguistically common development: see J. Bybee, Joan L., Revere Perkins, and William Pagliuca (1994) The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. To get more on the evolution of tense, modality and aspect, check out Bybee et al.'s The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. All tense/aspect/modality is done with separate, orthogonal particles. 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. 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. Matras, Yaron (2001) Tense, aspect, and modality categories in Romani. Four-tense languages variety finer distinctions either inside the ancient times (e.g. Experience temporal adverbials that come across situations indoors time The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, in addition to Modality within the Languages of the World Smith, Carlota (1997).