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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">This has been the standard doctrine in
Indo-European and especially in Romance linguistics. For the
development of Proto-Romance in oral communication with
simultaneous persistence of the written language, the resolution
of the oecumenic council of Tours (813) is standardly quoted
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/sprachen/indogermania/RomGesch/Gemeinrom.html#Tours">https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/sprachen/indogermania/RomGesch/Gemeinrom.html#Tours</a>).<br>
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For some evidence for the opposite source, viz. grammatical change
originating in the written variety, see<br>
Lehmann, Christian 1991, “Grammaticalization and related changes
in contemporary German”. Traugott, Elizabeth C. & Heine, Bernd
(eds.), <i>Approaches to grammaticalization</i>. Vol. II: Focus
on types of grammatical markers. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J.
Benjamins (Typological Studies in Language, 19:2); 2:493-535. <br>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/246338410_Grammaticalization_and_related_changes_in_contemporary_German">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/246338410_Grammaticalization_and_related_changes_in_contemporary_German</a>
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esp. section 2.3.<br>
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