Parallel grammaticalizations in Tibeto-Burman languages: evidence of Sapir's 'drift'

In chapters seven and eight of his book Language, Sapir talked about what he called 'drift', the changes that a language undergoes through time. He characterized it this way: ILlanguage is not merely something that is spread out in space, as it were—a series of reflections in individual m...

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Main Author: LaPolla, Randy J.
Other Authors: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179349
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English