Historical Development of Auxiliaries

Historical Development of Auxiliaries
Author: Martin Harris
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2011-07-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110856913

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.

English Auxiliaries

English Auxiliaries
Author: Anthony Warner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993-11-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521302846

A detailed account of the grammar and historical development of English auxiliaries.

English Historical Syntax

English Historical Syntax
Author: David Denison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2014-06-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317887697

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.

Auxiliary Selection Revisited

Auxiliary Selection Revisited
Author: Rolf Kailuweit
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110348861

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.

Auxiliary Selection in Spanish

Auxiliary Selection in Spanish
Author: Malte Rosemeyer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027270406

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.

Tener + Past Participle

Tener + Past Participle
Author: Catherine E. Harre
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2005-10-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134934610

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.

Split Auxiliary Systems

Split Auxiliary Systems
Author: Raúl Aranovich
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2007-03-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027292566

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.

The Tamil Auxiliary Verb System

The Tamil Auxiliary Verb System
Author: Sanford B. Steever
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 100008275X

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.

Auxiliaries

Auxiliaries
Author: Bernd Heine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 175
Release: 1993
Genre: Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN: 0195083873

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.