Auxiliary Selection Revisited : : Gradience and Gradualness /

Auxiliary Selection Revisited : : Gradience and Gradualness / / ed. by Rolf Kailuweit, Malte Rosemeyer.

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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 selectio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Alexiadou, Artemis,
Giancarli, Pierre-Don,
Gillmann, Melitta,
Heidinger, Steffen,
Kailuweit, Rolf,
Larsson, Ida,
Loporcaro, Michele,
Mateu, Jaume,
Messalles, Mar Massanell i,
Rosemeyer, Malte,
Sorace, Antonella,
Öhl, Peter,
HerausgeberIn:
Kailuweit, Rolf,
Rosemeyer, Malte,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , 44
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Physical Description:1 online resource (364 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section 1: (Limits of) Semantic and syntactic gradience
  • The cognitive complexity of auxiliary selection: from processing to grammaticality judgements
  • Perfective auxiliation with reflexives in Medieval Romance: syntactic vs. semantic gradients
  • Auxiliary selection with intransitive and reflexive verbs: the limits of gradience and scalarity, followed by a proposal
  • Section 2: Between constructional variation and auxiliary selection
  • On the irrealis effect on auxiliary selection
  • The HAVE/BE alternation in Scandinavian – perfects, resultatives and unaccusative structure
  • A constructional approach to auxiliary selection: evidence from existential constructions
  • Periphrasis as a precursor of analytic inflection: auxiliation in the (pre-)history of German
  • Section 3: Mechanisms of Gradual Change: BE > HAVE and HAVE > BE
  • BE or HAVE in Contemporary Standard French – residua of semantic motivation
  • The auxiliary selection of French monter ‘move upward’ from the 16th to the 20th century
  • Entrenchment and discourse traditions in Spanish auxiliary selection
  • Auxiliary selection in closely related languages: the case of German and Dutch
  • General index
  • Language index

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