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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788830003321

Titolo

Auxiliary selection revisited : gradience and gradualness / / edited by Rolf Kailuweit and Malte Rosemeyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-11-038643-7

3-11-034886-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Collana

Linguae & litterae ; ; volume 44

Disciplina

415/.6

Soggetti

Language and languages - Variation

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. (Limits of) semantic and syntactic gradience -- section 2. Between constructional variation and auxiliary selection -- section 3. Mechanisms of gradual change : BE > HAVE and HAVE > BE.

Sommario/riassunto

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.