[图书][B] The genesis of grammar: A reconstruction

B Heine, T Kuteva - 2007 - books.google.com
" This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they
could have led to the languages of modern humankind." Like other biological phenomena …

Contact-induced word order change without word order change

B Heine - Language contact and contact languages, 2008 - torrossa.com
In studies on language contact, word order has been a prominent topic. The linear
arrangement of phrases and words has been shown to be vulnerable when people …

Where do complementizers come from and how did they come about? A re-evaluation of the parataxis-to-hypotaxis hypothesis

H Weiß - Evolutionary Linguistic Theory, 2020 - jbe-platform.com
It is an old and widespread assumption in historical linguistics that hypotactic structures
evolved out from paratactic structures. In more recent times, the parataxis-to-hypotaxis …