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The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins, William Pagliuca
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

Magadhi Prakrit, the earliest recorded spoken language in the region and the language of the Buddha, had evolved into Ardhamagadhi ("Half Magadhi") in the early part of the first millennium C.E. Ardhamagadhi, as with all of the Prakrits of North India, began to give way to what are called Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian, wrote a modern Bengali grammar A Grammar of the Bengal Language (1778), that used Bengali types in print for the first time. They say in 3.3.1 that “In pidginization there is massive simplification including the loss of inflections” but “A creole, in contrast, generates grammatical categories such as number, tense, aspect, and modality” (57). Matras, Yaron (2001) Tense, aspect, and modality categories in Romani. I think this To build off what you said about the Cajuns in Louisiana, the show Swamp People on the history channel is a great example of how creolization can effect a language. 1994 The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. The different types of explanation in linguistics are discussed, along with the idea that a simpler grammar is one that accounts for more things with less duplication. One of the most interesting, and no doubt controversial, aspects of the book is the discussion of markedness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. For example, the evolution of the grammatical gender system in Indic languages indicates that Romani must have been spoken in India around 1000 CE. The working The chapter discusses how “language evolution” is to be defined in this study, where it is only used to describe conditions within a 5/000-7,000 year time depth. The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Languages of the World. It also broadens two societies' views of the world.