المرجع الالكتروني للمعلوماتية
المرجع الألكتروني للمعلوماتية

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Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty  
  
607   08:28 صباحاً   date: 2024-01-19
Author : P. John McWhorter
Book or Source : The Story of Human Language
Page and Part : 47-23


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Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty

A great deal of a language’s grammar is a kind of overgrowth, marking nuances of life that many or most languages do without. Some languages require one to mark how one learned whatever one is saying; others mark possession differently, according to whether one refers to an object or a body part. Even the gender marking familiar from European languages is a frill, absent in thousands of languages. The theme is decoration over necessity.