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The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins, William Pagliuca
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

All tense/aspect/modality is done with separate, orthogonal particles. Bybee, Joan; Perkins, Revere, & Pagliuca, William. English, however, has drifted more than many other Indo-European languages towards the isolating model of morphology, where grammatical notions of tense, aspect, number, person etc. To get more on the evolution of tense, modality and aspect, check out Bybee et al.'s The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. Matras, Yaron (2001) Tense, aspect, and modality categories in Romani. In this approach, the creation of new languages, whether or not they are labeled “Creole,” sheds lights on the interplay of first- and second-language acquisition as new grammars are built from complex and variable input. Magadhi Prakrit, the earliest recorded spoken language in the region and the language of the Buddha, had evolved into Ardhamagadhi ("Half Magadhi") in the early part of the first millennium C.E. For example, the evolution of the grammatical gender system in Indic languages indicates that Romani must have been spoken in India around 1000 CE. Modality in grammar and discourse. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. Ardhamagadhi, as with all of the Prakrits of North India, began to give way to what are called Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian, wrote a modern Bengali grammar A Grammar of the Bengal Language (1778), that used Bengali types in print for the first time. They win if the first creole, the barmaids' milk language, was SVO with largely Norse grammar and some Anglo-Saxon vocabulary.