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Hoefler, S. and Smith, A. D. M. (2008) Reanalysis vs Metaphor: What Grammaticalisation CAN Tell Us about Language Evolution. In A. D. M. Smith and K. Smith and R. Ferrer-i-Cancho, editors, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 163--170. World Scientific.
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Abstract

We argue that studying grammaticalisation is useful to evolutionary linguists, if we abstract away from linguistic description to the underlying cognitive mechanisms. We set out a unified approach to grammaticalisation that allows us to identify these mechanisms, and argue that they could indeed be sufficient for the initial emergence of linguistic signal-meaning associations.
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@incollection{hoefler08evolang7th,
  author={Stefan Hoefler and Andrew D. M. Smith},
  title={Reanalysis vs Metaphor: What Grammaticalisation CAN Tell Us about Language Evolution},
  year={2008},
  month={March},
  pages={163-170},
  editor={A. D. M. Smith and K. Smith and R. Ferrer-i-Cancho},
  publisher={World Scientific},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/hoefler08evolang7th.html}
}

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