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, |