DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmagrammatical change
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaHockett (1958)
TitoloA Course in Modern Linguistics
Sinonimi 
Rinviikinds of change (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

[...] 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), Pag. 414

Change within the grammatical core: we shall use the term ‘grammatical change’ exclusively for this.
- Hockett (1958), Pag. 380

Our definition of “grammatical change” is “change in the grammatical core”.
- Hockett (1958), Pag. 414