Historical Development Of Auxiliaries

Author : Martin Harris,Paolo Ramat
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110856910

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Historical Development of Auxiliaries by Martin Harris,Paolo Ramat Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. 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. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS 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. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Martin Harris,Paolo Ramat
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 089925201X

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Historical Development of Auxiliaries by Martin Harris,Paolo Ramat Pdf

Author : David Denison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317887690

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English Historical Syntax by David Denison Pdf

This study brings together many of the resources needed for the exploration of English historical syntax and deals with many of the important changes in English sentence structure from Old English to present. It also features a survey of published research from both classical and modern linguistic traditions, as well as new research by the author. Provides guidance on methodology, important reference materials, and the general history of the English language.

Author : Claudia Claridge,Birte Bös
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262479

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Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax by Claudia Claridge,Birte Bös Pdf

Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological marking, periphrastic verbal constructions, auxiliary variation and evolution, as well as changing word order options. Favouring corpus-linguistic, frequency-based and statistical approaches, the studies are firmly empirically grounded. The book is aimed at scholars interested in the history of the English language and in language variation and change.

Author : Rolf Kailuweit,Malte Rosemeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110348866

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Auxiliary Selection Revisited by Rolf Kailuweit,Malte Rosemeyer Pdf

A central debate about the description of auxiliary selection concerns the regularity of auxiliary selection from a typological perspective. Thus, studies of auxiliary selection have both stressed the fact that certain recurrent parameters are highly relevant to the description of auxiliary selection, whereas other studies demonstrate significant differences in auxiliary selection systems. By integrating the synchronic and diachronic levels of linguistic description, the papers in the present volume work towards a framework that explains these contradictory findings. They discuss the role of semantic and syntactic constraints in gradient auxiliary selection, address the question of paradigmaticity of the have-be alternation, and shed light on the mechanisms of the gradual historical change from be- to have-selection. The volume thus puts forth a row of innovative theoretical and empirical findings from a wide range of typologically diverse European languages that substantially broaden our knowledge about the mechanisms of auxiliary selection systems.

Author : Malte Rosemeyer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270405

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Auxiliary Selection in Spanish by Malte Rosemeyer Pdf

Although usage-based linguistics emphasises the need for studies of language change to take frequency effects into account, there is a lack of research that tries to systematically model frequency effects and their relation to diffusion processes in language change. This monograph offers a diachronic study of the change in Spanish perfect auxiliary selection between Old and Early Modern Spanish that led to the gradual replacement of the auxiliary ser ‘be’ with the auxiliary haber ‘have’. It analyses this process in terms of the interaction between gradience, gradualness, and the conserving effects of frequency and persistence in language change. The study contributes to the theory and methodology of diachronic linguistics, additionally offering insights on how to explain synchronic grammatical variation both within a language and between languages. The book is of interest to the fields of Spanish and Romance linguistics, syntax, as well as historical and variationist linguistics.

Author : Catherine E. Harre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134934614

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Tener + Past Participle by Catherine E. Harre Pdf

A study of tener + past participle - an often neglected construction - as used in the modern language and an historical survey of its evolution. It encapsulates many of the problems encountered by the synchronic linguist.

Author : Jaap van Marle
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027277046

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Historical Linguistics 1991 by Jaap van Marle Pdf

This volume contains 22 of the 95 papers presented during ICHL 10. The articles included here clearly reflect the on-going interest in the general mechanisms of language change, the close relationship between present-day historical linguistics and linguistic theory, and the renewed interest in language contact. The papers deal with more general issues as well as with specific problems in diverse languages and language groups. The volume contains three indexes: of names, of languages, and of subjects.

Author : Charles Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317898993

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Historical Linguistics by Charles Jones Pdf

The contributors to this volume cover the international range of scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some of its major themes. The work and ideas they discuss are relevant not only to other aspects of Historical Linguistics but also to more general developments in linguistic theory. Along with Professor Jones' Introduction, their comments provide a major overview of Historical Linguistics that will be the reference point for its development for many years to come and form an important contribution to general theories of linguistic behaviour.

Author : Raúl Aranovich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292568

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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 : Anthony R. Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Bernd Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9780195083873

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Auxiliaries by Bernd Heine Pdf

This is a comprehensive study of the linguistic concept of auxiliaries, which offers a new perspective on language structure in general. It also provides an introduction to recent work in grammaticalization theory.

Author : Dennis Wegner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110616149

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The Underspecification of Past Participles by Dennis Wegner Pdf

Are the past participial forms that occur in passive and perfect periphrases substantially identical or should they rather be distinguished into accidentally homophonous passive and perfect(ive) participles? This book discusses the long-standing mystery of past participial (non-)identity on the basis of a broad range of synchronic data from Germanic and Romance, eventually focussing on German and English as these draw the most relevant distinctions (e.g. auxiliary alternation, a passive auxiliary that is not BE). Together with some contrastive insights from Slavic as well as the diachrony of passive and perfect periphrases, this clearly points to an identity-view. The novel approach that is laid out suggests that past participles conflate diathetic and aspectual properties. The former cause the suppression of an external argument, whereas the latter impose event-structure sensitive perfectivity, which only induces the completion of a situation if the underlying eventuality denotes a simple change of state. An approach along these lines sheds light on the intricate properties of past participles and the auxiliaries they occur with, the determinants of auxiliary selection as well as the interplay of argument and event structure.

Author : Gregory D.S. Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Jacek Fisiak,Marcin Krygier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110161516

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Advances in English Historical Linguistics (1996) by Jacek Fisiak,Marcin Krygier Pdf

Comprising a selection of papers presented at the Ninth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held in Poznan in August 1996, this volume contains 28 contributions addressing a range of topics, but with an emphasis on morphological and syntactical studies on word-formation, modality and negation, and clause structure in the history of the English language. A more theoretically-oriented strain is represented by contributions treating grammaticalization or lexical diffusion in language change. There are also contributions addressing the historiography of historical linguistics including discussion of past grammarians such as Buchanan or Huish, as well as phonological studies and discussion of the development of Early Modern English. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR