[Lingtyp] Emergence of word-class systems

[John Mansfield]

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?
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