Simulating the development of bound person marking

Sander Lestrade · Radboud Repository (Radboud University) · 2015

Two different grammaticalization pathways have been proposed in the literature for the development of verbal bound person marking. It is shown that both can be simulated successfully. This suggests that bound person marking may emerge spontaneously in language and need not be genetically encoded.

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