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Tense–aspect–mood marking, language-family size and the evolution of predication

This paper proposes a Complexity Covariance Hypothesis, whereby linguistic complexity covaries with cultural and socio-political complexity, and argues for an Evolutionary Inference Principle, in accordance with which, in domains where linguistic complexity correlates positively with cultural/socio-...

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Autor principal: Gil, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8059509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33745313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0194