Recombination, Feature Pool, and Population Structure Three Factors Bearing on “Grammaticalization”
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| Publication date | 2026 |
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| Book title | Uniformitarianism in Language Speciation |
| Book subtitle | From Creolistics to Genetic Linguistics |
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| Chapter | 12 |
| Pages (from-to) | 450-482 |
| Publisher | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press |
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| Abstract | The paper is a critique of grammaticalization. It argues that a uniformitarian approach to the emergence of grammars based on recombination constrained by learning biases as well as competition and selection within the evolving feature pool offers a different perspective on theories of grammaticalization. It is proposed that traditional views of grammaticalization are not accurate, because they conflate the process of change at the individual and population levels. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009628983.013 |
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