The Major smiled as he saw the boy dandifying himself in the glass: the old gentleman was not displeased with the appearance of the comely lad.
The process Haiman focuses on is exaptation, which he defines as the promotion of meaningless or redundant material so that it does new grammatical (morphosyntactic or phonological) or semantic work (p52).
the promotion of meaningless or redundant material so that it does new grammatical (morphosyntactic or phonological) or semantic work
She put her jewelry up for auction.
The testimony is not sufficient to support the charges.
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