The first collection of papers dedicated to exaptation, a notion from evolutionary biology that was introduced into linguistics by Lass in 1990. The past quarter-century has seen a heated debate on its properties, and whether it is a useful concept in historical linguistics at all. These contributions reflect these diverging points of view.
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The first collection of papers dedicated to exaptation, a notion from evolutionary biology that was introduced into linguistics by Lass in 1990. The past quarter-century has seen a heated debate on its properties, and whether it is a useful concept in historical linguistics at all. These contributions reflect these diverging points of view.
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