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my own works to the mix:</span></p>
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lang="EN-US">Gil,
David (2000) "Syntactic Categories, Cross-Linguistic Variation
and
Universal Grammar", in P. M. Vogel and B. Comrie eds., <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Approaches to the Typology
of Word Classes</i>,
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, Mouton, Berlin and
New York,
173-216.</span></p>
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style="margin-left:27.35pt;text-indent:-27.35pt"><span
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lang="EN-US">Gil,
David (2017) "Isolating-Monocategorial-Associational Language",
in H.
Cohen and C. Lefebvre eds, Handbook of Categorization in
Cognitive Science,
Second Edition, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 471-510.</span></p>
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lang="EN-US">In addition, the
following, dealing mostly with the ontogeny of word classes,
also has phylogenetic
implications:</span></p>
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major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi"
lang="EN-US">Gil,
David (2010) "The Acquisition of Syntactic Categories in Jakarta
Indonesian", in J. Don and R. Pfau eds., <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Parts of Speech, Empirical and Theoretical Advances</i>,John
Benjamins,
Amsterdam, 135-167.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(First
appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Studies in
Language </i>32:637-669, 2008.) </span></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/04/2023 01:57, John Mansfield
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<div dir="ltr">Can anyone point me at literature speculating on
how word-class systems may have emerged in human language? That
is to say, if we assume that there are or were (proto-)languages
without a clear word-class system, then how might one develop?</div>
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