Auxiliary Verb Constructions

Author : Gregory D. S. Anderson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191535642

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Auxiliary Verb Constructions by Gregory D. S. Anderson Pdf

This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of auxiliary verb constructions, as in 'he could have been going to drink it' and 'she does eat cheese'. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages Dr Anderson examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles. He investigates and explains the historical changes leading to the cross-linguistic diversity of inflectional patterns, and he presents his results within a new typological framework. The book's impressive range includes data on variation within and across languages and language families. In addition to examining languages in Africa, Europe, and Asia the author presents analyses of languages in Australasia and the Pacific and in North, South, and Meso-America. In doing so he reveals much that is new about the language families of the world and makes an important contribution to the understanding of their nature and evolution. His book will interest scholars and researchers in language typology, historical and comparative linguistics, syntax, and morphology.

Author : Gregory D. S. Anderson
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Turkic languages, Northeast
ISBN : 3447046368

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Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Altai-Sayan Turkic by Gregory D. S. Anderson Pdf

Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Altai-Sayan Turkic is a comprehensive survey of the rich system of auxiliary verbs found in the Altai-Sayan Turkic languages spoken in south central Siberia. This includes a discussion of the range of patterns of inflection in the auxiliary verb constructions, the development of various verbal affixes that were originally auxiliary verbs, and the wide array of functions that auxiliary verb constructions have in this group of languages. These latter include the usual tense, mood, and aspect categories that are commonly associated with auxiliary verbs across the languages of the world. In addition, auxiliary verb constructions have several less typical functions in the Altai-Sayan Turkic languages. These include both unusual modal or aspectual categories like unexpected action or 'pretend to' forms and categories relating to so-called verbal 'orientation' or 'direction' and 'version'. In the former instance, the forms mark motion toward or away from the subject, topic, or discourse locus, while the latter formations indicate whether a subject or a nonsubject is the participant primarily affected by the action of the verb.

Author : Sanford B. Steever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000082753

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The Tamil Auxiliary Verb System by Sanford B. Steever Pdf

This book introduces the syntactic process of auxiliary formation and applies it to the grammatical analysis of the indicative, or non-modal, auxiliary verbs of Modern Tamil. Using data from spoken and written registers gathered over several years, the book demonstrates for the first time the systematic nature of auxiliary verb phenomena, and how they are integrated into the grammar of the language. Including fresh information on new verb constructions, verbal categories and tenses, this book will be a welcome addition to the current general linguistics literature, in particular the study of verbal categories and the morphosyntactic processes that instantiate them.

Author : Gregory D.S. Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199280315

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Auxiliary Verb Constructions by Gregory D.S. Anderson Pdf

This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of auxiliary verb constructions, as in 'he could have been going to drink it' and 'she does eat cheese'. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages Dr Anderson examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles. He investigates and explains the historical changes leading to the cross-linguistic diversity of inflectional patterns, and he presents his results within a new typological framework.The book's impressive range includes data on variation within and across languages and language families. In addition to examining languages in Africa, Europe, and Asia the author presents analyses of languages in Australasia and the Pacific and in North, South, and Meso-America. In doing so he reveals much that is new about the language families of the world and makes an important contribution to the understanding of their nature and evolution. His book will interest scholars and researchersin language typology, historical and comparative linguistics, syntax, and morphology.

Author : William Freeman Twaddell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015030925435

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The English Verb Auxiliaries by William Freeman Twaddell Pdf

Author : Raúl Aranovich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229813

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Split Auxiliary Systems by Raúl Aranovich Pdf

The alternation between the auxiliaries BE and HAVE, which this collection examines, is often discussed in connection with generative analyses of split intransitivity. But this book's purpose is to place the phenomenon in a broader context. Well-known facts in the Romance and Germanic language families are extended with data from lesser studied languages and dialects (Romanian, Paduan), and also with experimental and historical data. Moreover, the book goes beyond the usual language families in which the phenomenon has been studied, with the inclusion of two chapters on Chinese and Korean. The theoretical background of the contributors is also broad, ranging from current Generative approaches to Cognitive and Optimality-Theoretical frameworks. Readers interested in the structural, historical, developmental, or experimental aspects of auxiliary selection should profit from this book's comprehensive empirical coverage and from the plurality of contemporary linguistic analyses it contains.

Author : Carol Lord
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229137

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Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions by Carol Lord Pdf

This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in syntactic, morphological and lexical change.The process by which verbs lose lexical semantic content and develop case-marking functions is described; it is argued that the change is directional, from verb to preposition (or postposition) to affix, along a grammaticalization continuum. This same grammaticalization process is shown to result in the development of complementizers, adverbial subordinators, conjunctions, adverbs and auxiliaries from verbs. Strong parallels across languages are found in the meanings of the verbs that become “defective” and in the functions they come to mark. The changes are documented in detail, with examples from a number of languages illustrating the effect of the changes on typology and word order, implications for the encoding of definiteness and aspect, and the relevance of notions such as discourse topic, foreground and transitivity.With respect to theoretical assumptions and terminology, the author has taken a relatively nonpartisan approach, and the discussion is accessible to students of language as well as of interest to theoreticians.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 019170718X

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Auxiliary verb constructions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Hope
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521417372

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The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays by Jonathan Hope Pdf

This book introduces a new method for determining the authorship of Renaissance plays. Based on the rapid rate of change in English grammar in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, socio-historical linguistic evidence allows us to distinguish the hands of Renaissance playwrights within play texts. The present study focuses on Shakespeare, his collaborations with Fletcher and Middleton, and the apocryphal plays. Among the plays examined are Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Macbeth, Pericles, and Sir Thomas More. Using graphs to present statistical data in a readily comprehensible form, the book also contains a wealth of information about the history of the English language during a period of rapid and far-reaching change.

Author : Stefan Müller
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1575863863

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Complex Predicates by Stefan Müller Pdf

Complex Predicates examines a number of linguistic phenomena—including auxiliary and verb combinations, causative constructions, predicatives, depictive secondary predicates, and particle and verb combinations—and uses scrambling and fronting data to determine that all except the depictive secondary predicates should be treated as complex predicates. Müller's analysis of inflection and derivation is compatible with syntactical analysis of particle verbs; as a byproduct, it also solves the particle verb bracketing paradox often discussed in the literature.

Author : Beatrix Busse,Ruth Moehlig-Falke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110592993

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Patterns in Language and Linguistics by Beatrix Busse,Ruth Moehlig-Falke Pdf

Despite its importance for language and cognition, the theoretical concept of pattern has received little attention in linguistics so far. The articles in this volume demonstrate the multifariousness of linguistic patterns in lexicology, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, text linguistics, pragmatics, construction grammar, phonology and language acquisition and develop new perspectives on pattern as a linguistic concept.

Author : Anthony R. Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521103215

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English Auxiliaries by Anthony R. Warner Pdf

Auxiliaries are one of the most complex areas of English syntax. Disagreement over both the principles and details of their grammar has been substantial. Anthony Warner here offers a detailed account of both their synchronic and diachronic properties. He first argues that lexical properties are central to their grammar, which is relatively non-abstract. He then traces in detail the history of processes of grammaticalisation in their development and claims most notably that we can identify a group of auxiliaries in English from an early period on formal, not just semantic, grounds. This book meets the dual challenge of accounting for both the grammar and the history of the English auxiliary. It will be essential reading for all those interested in English syntax and its history.

Author : Michael Allan Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521388058

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Foundations of French Syntax by Michael Allan Jones Pdf

Designed for students, this detailed analysis of the principal areas of French grammar combines the insights of modern linguistic theory with those of more traditional grammarians. Theory is placed firmly in the service of description and analysis, and students are guided to an understanding of the French language which will complement the information offered by traditional reference grammars. The book includes discussion of verbs and verb phrases, voice, tense and mood, the noun phrase and pronouns, prepositions and variations in sentence-structure. The author pays special attention to those areas of French grammar which pose difficulties for an English-speaking reader. Each chapter is followed by a set of problems and exercises, and by a useful guide to further reading. Foundations of French Syntax assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics, and will appeal to students and teachers of linguistics, French and other Romance languages.

Author : Sadaf Munshi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004387898

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Srinagar Burushaski by Sadaf Munshi Pdf

In Srinagar Burushaski: A Descriptive and Comparative Account with Analyzed Texts Sadaf Munshi offers a comprehensive and comparative account of the structural features of a lesser-known variety of Burushaski spoken in Srinagar.

Author : Kate Woodford,Guy Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521824230

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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary by Kate Woodford,Guy Jackson Pdf

The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.