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Historical development of auxiliaries / edited by Martin Harris and Paolo Ramat.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Conference on Historical Linguistics (7th : 1985 : University of Pavia)
- Series:
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 35.
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 35
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb--Congresses.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Auxiliaries--Congresses.
- Historical linguistics--Congresses.
- Historical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 368 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2011
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1987.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "Historical Development of Auxiliaries".
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Section (a): General Problems
- Introductory Paper / Ramat, Paolo
- From Auxiliary to Desinence / Andersen, Henning
- Copula Auxiliarization: How and Why? / Dik, Simon C.
- Auxiliaries and Ergative Splits: A Typological Parameter / Jelinek, Eloise
- Section (b): Germanic Languages
- The Auxiliarization of the English Modals: A Functional Grammar View / Goossens, Louis
- On the Use of the Modal Auxiliaries Indicating 'Possibility' in Early American English / Kytö, Merja
- Semantic Change in Modal Auxiliaries as a Result of Speech Act Embedding / Conradie, C. J.
- Syntactic and Semantic Change Within the Modal Systems of English and Afrikaans / Harris, Martin
- Section (c): Romance Languages
- The Strategy and Chronology of the Development of Future and Perfect Tense Auxiliaries in Latin / Pinkster, Harm
- Syntactic Restructuring in the Evolution of Romance Auxiliaries / Salvi, Giampaolo
- The Interaction of Periphrasis and Inflection: Some Romance Examples / Vincent, Nigel
- The Evolution of Romance Auxiliaries: Criteria and Chronology / Green, John N.
- Section (d): 'Exotic' Languages
- Auxiliaries in Khotanese / Emmerick, Ronald E.
- The Development of the AUX-category in Pidgins and Creoles: The Case of the Resultative-perfective and its Relation to Anteriority / Stolz, Thomas
- AUX in Basque / Manandise, Esméralda
- Auxiliaries in 'Exotic' Languages / Puglielli, Annarita
- Subject Index
- Index of Names
- Index of Languages
- Notes:
- Papers presented at a workshop as part of the Seventh International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held in Pavia, Sept., 1985.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783110856910
- 3110856913
- OCLC:
- 979849169
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