Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Exaptation 1
5. Being exacting about exapting 37
6. Co-opting exaptation in a theory of language change 57
7. Exaptation in Japanese and beyond 93
8. Functional changes and (meta-)linguistic evolution 121
9. Exaptation from the perspective of construction morphology 163
10. Exaptation and degrammaticalization within an acquisition-based model of abductive reanalysis 197
11. Allogenous exaptation 227
12. How functionless is junk and how useful is exaptation? 261
13. The history of nominative -er in Danish and Swedish 287
14. Is the development of linking elements in German a case of exaptation? 317
15. Exploring and recycling 341
16. Exaptation and adaptation 377
17. Language index 403
18. Subject index 407