Historical Development of Auxiliaries / / ed. by Martin Harris, Paolo Ramat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Andersen, Henning,; Conradie, C. J.,; Dik, Simon C.,; Emmerick, Ronald E.,; Goossens, Louis,; Green, John N.,; Harris, Martin,; Jelinek, Eloise,; Kytö, Merja,; Manandise, Esméralda,; Pinkster, Harm,; Puglielli, Annarita,; Ramat, Paolo,; Salvi, Giampaolo,; Stolz, Thomas,; Vincent, Nigel,
• HerausgeberIn: Harris, Martin,; Ramat, Paolo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 35
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

• I-VIII
• Section (a): General Problems
• Introductory Paper
• From Auxiliary to Desinence
• Copula Auxiliarization: How and Why?
• Auxiliaries and Ergative Splits: A Typological Parameter
• Section (b): Germanic Languages
• The Auxiliarization of the English Modals: A Functional Grammar View
• On the Use of the Modal Auxiliaries Indicating ‘Possibility’ in Early American English
• Semantic Change in Modal Auxiliaries as a Result of Speech Act Embedding
• Syntactic and Semantic Change Within the Modal Systems of English and Afrikaans
• Section (c): Romance Languages
• The Strategy and Chronology of the Development of Future and Perfect Tense Auxiliaries in Latin
• Syntactic Restructuring in the Evolution of Romance Auxiliaries
• The Interaction of Periphrasis and Inflection: Some Romance Examples
• The Evolution of Romance Auxiliaries: Criteria and Chronology
• Section (d): ‘Exotic’ Languages
• Auxiliaries in Khotanese
• The Development of the AUX-category in Pidgins and Creoles: The Case of the Resultative-perfective and its Relation to Anteriority
• AUX in Basque
• Auxiliaries in ‘Exotic’ Languages
• Subject Index
• Index of Names
• Index of Languages