[Lingtyp] Emergence of word-class systems

[Jess Tauber]

There are living languages where word class is fluid enough to speculate
that they don't have any such classes at the lexical root level, or very
few such terms. So apparently not all languages have gotten the memo yet,
or have misplaced it...

See https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/108382963/Mundari2_kort.pdf
(and for an opposing argument:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249932032_Mundari_The_myth_of_a_language_without_word_classes
)

Jess Tauber

On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 6:57 PM John Mansfield <jbmansfield at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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