Languages and cultures self-repair the way ecosystems do, by selective replication of novel components that manage to find a job.
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As Old English loses its perfective prefix ge-, use of demonstratives surge (that), eventually grammaticalizing into articles (the)
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Once you can't say "I [chopped-completely] wood," you have to say "I chopped the wood." Quantifiers like "all" also increase.
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