spaMendívil Giró, José Luis¿Qué relación hay entre el cambio lingüístico y la evolución del lenguaje?ART-2016-96782The relation between language change and language evolution can be understood in two ways: according to the first one, both processes are independent; according to the second one, language change is a main factor in the evolution of the human faculty of language. Both options are correlated with different conceptions of language, and with different theories of language change. By examining so-called grammaticalisation theory, I analyse the arguments of both options and I conclude that the assumption that linguistic changes are relevant in the evolution of the human language faculty presents empirical and theoretical problems that make it unsustainable, and it hinders a proper understanding of both linguistic change and language evolution.2016http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/129441http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/129441oai:zaguan.unizar.es:129441info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FFI2013-45553-C3-1-PLingüística en la Red 14 (2016), 1-17by-nc-ndhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess