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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

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. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. 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. Examples: open/close all folders. 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. 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. 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). Studies in Language 13: 51–103. It also broadens two societies' views of the world. 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 . Bybee, Joan L., Revere Perkins, and William Pagliuca (1994) The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. Each section starts with an explanation and examples, followed by exercises. 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. Bybee, Joan, Revere Perkins, and William Pagliuca 1994 The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world.