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        lang="EN-US">Dear John,</span></p>
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        lang="EN-US">If I may add some of
        my own works to the mix:</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 (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
        style="font-family:"Times New
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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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    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
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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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David Gil

Senior Scientist (Associate)
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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