Natural selection in syntax: Notes on adaptive variation and change in vernacular and literary grammar
- 30 November 1983
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Pragmatics
- Vol. 7 (5), 551-579
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(83)90081-4
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