Book review
Exaptation and language change. Edited by Muriel Norde & Freek Van de Velde
Article outline
- 1.Background
- 2.The main issues
- 3.Cross-disciplinary conceptual transfer
- 4.Linguistic junk
- 5.Is exaptation a stand-alone concept?
- 6.Exaptation beyond morphology
- Notes
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