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

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

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...