86179 20191128095710.0 doi 10.5334/gjgl.895 sideral 114482 ART-2019-114482 eng (orcid)0000-0001-6891-6275 Mendívil Giró, José Luis Universidad de Zaragoza Did language evolve through language change? On language change, language evolution and grammaticalization theory 2019 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The relation between language change and the process of language evolution is controversial in current linguistic theory. Some authors believe that the two processes are completely unrelated, while for others the evolution of language is (at least in part) a consequence of linguistic changes. Both models imply a very different assessment of what is changing when languages themselves change. I present an explicit model of what changes when languages change, and I show that the claim that language change is a crucial factor in explaining the evolution of human language, although suggestive and very popular, faces problems of a theoretical and empirical nature. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FFI2017-82460-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3010 575 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Lingüíst. Gral. e Hisp. Área Lingüística General 4, 1 (2019), 124 1-30 Glossa Glossa 0017-1271 3778403 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/86179/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 116363 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/86179/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:86179 articulos driver 2019-11-22-14:42:27 ARTICLE