Table of contents
Preface
vii
Exaptation: Taking stock of a controversial notion in linguistics
1
Being exacting about exapting: An exaptation omnibus
37
Co-opting exaptation in a theory of language change
57
Exaptation in Japanese and beyond
93
Functional changes and (meta-)linguistic evolution
121
Exaptation from the perspective of construction morphology
163
Exaptation and degrammaticalization within an acquisition-based model of abductive reanalysis
197
Allogenous exaptation
227
How functionless is junk, and how useful is exaptation? Probing the -i/esc- morpheme
261
The history of nominative -er in Danish and Swedish: A case of exaptation?
287
Is the development of linking elements in German a case of exaptation?
317
Exploring and recycling: Topichood and the evolution of Ibero-romance articles
341
Exaptation and adaptation: Two historical routes to final particles in Japanese
377
Language index
403
Subject index
407
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