Study shows language evolves à la Darwin, less-used forms die off
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Irregular verbs, much like the Kennewick Man, evolve. But, much like the woolly mammoth, sometimes they vanish altogether, and linguists and evolutionary theorists have teamed up to compute their extinction times—in terms of half-lives.
The study, published this week in
Nature, shows that irregular forms of lesser-used verbs are...
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