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This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect and modality, and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. It argues that the same paths of change occur in languages in different phyla and that movement along these paths is in one direction only.

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    A Paperback / softback by Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins, William Pagliuca

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/11/1994
      ISBN13: 9780226086651, 978-0226086651
      ISBN10: 0226086658
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      Book Synopsis
      This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect and modality, and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. It argues that the same paths of change occur in languages in different phyla and that movement along these paths is in one direction only.

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