Historical Development of Auxiliaries.
Title:
Historical Development of Auxiliaries.
Author:
Harris, Martin.
ISBN:
9783110856910
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (376 pages)
Series:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; v.35
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
Contents:
Section (a): General Problems -- Introductory Paper -- From Auxiliary to Desinence -- Copula Auxiliarization: How and Why? -- Auxiliaries and Ergative Splits: A Typological Parameter -- Section (b): Germanic Languages -- The Auxiliarization of the English Modals: A Functional Grammar View -- On the Use of the Modal Auxiliaries Indicating 'Possibility' in Early American English -- Semantic Change in Modal Auxiliaries as a Result of Speech Act Embedding -- Syntactic and Semantic Change Within the Modal Systems of English and Afrikaans (Discussion Paper) -- Section (c): Romance Languages -- The Strategy and Chronology of the Development of Future and Perfect Tense Auxiliaries in Latin -- Syntactic Restructuring in the Evolution of Romance Auxiliaries -- The Interaction of Periphrasis and Inflection: Some Romance Examples -- The Evolution of Romance Auxiliaries: Criteria and Chronology (Discussion Paper) -- Section (d): 'Exotic' Languages -- Auxiliaries in Khotanese -- The Development of the AUX-category in Pidgins and Creoles: The Case of the Resultative-perfective and its Relation to Anteriority -- AUX in Basque -- Auxiliaries in 'Exotic' Languages (Discussion Paper) -- Subject Index -- Index of Names -- Index of Languages.
Abstract:
The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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