38: Generativism 2: How It's Going (with Taylor Miller and Adam Tallman)
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Grammar Is a Feeling
It takes a very long, intense amount of language contact to transfer grammar. Grammar is a feeling because when you hear something ungrammatical, you feel it. A paper compared they had 14 languages spoken in northeastern Eurasia and found that grammar reflects the population history of these communities better than lexicon.
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