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Review published In: Diachronica
Vol. 34:1 (2017) ► pp.117–126

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Book review

Exaptation and language change. Edited by Muriel Norde & Freek Van de Velde

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Published online: 25 April 2017
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Article outline
  • 1.Background
  • 2.The main issues
  • 3.Cross-disciplinary conceptual transfer
  • 4.Linguistic junk
  • 5.Is exaptation a stand-alone concept?
  • 6.Exaptation beyond morphology
  • Notes
  • References
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