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Edited by Muriel Norde and Freek Van de Velde
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 336] 2016
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Exaptation

Taking stock of a controversial notion in linguistics

Published online: 24 February 2016
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Exaptation in evolutionary biology
  • 3.Exaptation in linguistics
    • 3.1On borrowing terms from other disciplines
    • 3.2Exaptation in language change
    • 3.3Exaptation outside inflectional morphology
  • 4.(Alleged) properties of exaptation
    • 4.1Unexpectedness of the new function
    • 4.2Novelty of the new function
    • 4.3Junk status of the input
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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