Publications

Publication details [#18605]

Bybee, Joan L., Revere Perkins and William Pagliuca. 1994. The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. University of Chicago Press. xix + 398 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

aspect | grammaticalization | modality | tense | universal grammar

Annotation

Investigating interlanguage similarities and differences, using sample-data from 25 language families, this book proposes universal grammaticalization paths to encode tense, aspect and modality.

Reviewed by

Kaye, Alan S. 1998. Review of $The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World.