[...] grammatical change can be brought about indirectly by borrowing- via sets of related loanwords. There is some doubt that grammatical change can result from borrowing ‘from another language’ in any other way, but the issue is not settled. [...]. - Hockett (1958), a pag.414 Change within the grammatical core: we shall use the term ‘grammatical change’ exclusively for this. - Hockett (1958), a pag.380 Our definition of “grammatical change” is “change in the grammatical core”. - Hockett (1958), a pag.414
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