The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World by Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins, William Pagliuca

The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins, William Pagliuca ebook
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Format: pdf
Page: 398
ISBN: 0226086658, 9780226086651

The evolution of grammar.Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. 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. 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. This is a cross-linguistically common development: see J. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press. Perkins, and Willmott Pagliuca, The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World (Chicago/London 1994): 10-11. Bybee, Joan L., Perkins,Revere and Pagliuca,William. 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. 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. 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.