LEADER 02826nam 2200445 450 001 9910795283503321 005 20230105202201.0 010 $a90-04-41405-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004414051 035 $a(CKB)4920000000126907 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004414051 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5992933 035 $a(EXLCZ)994920000000126907 100 $a20191227d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun| uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aGrammaticalising the perfect and explanations of language change $ehave- and be-perfects in the history and structure of English and Bulgarian /$fby Bozhil Hristov 210 1$aLeiden, The Netherlands ;$aBoston :$cBrill,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aBrill's studies in historical linguistics ;$vVolume 10 311 $a90-04-41432-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Theoretical preliminaries -- The story of the English perfect -- The development of the perfect in a selection of Old English texts -- Further development of the perfect based on a selection of texts from Middle to Modern English -- How things could have been: a glance at German -- The perfect in the history and structure of Bulgarian -- The development of the perfect in a selection of Middle and Modern Bulgarian texts -- Conclusions. 330 $aIn Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change: Have- and Be-Perfects in the History and Structure of English and Bulgarian, Bozhil Hristov investigates key aspects of the verbal systems of two distantly related Indo-European languages, highlighting similarities as well as crucial differences between them and seeking a unified approach. The book reassesses some long-held notions and functionalist assumptions and shines the spotlight on certain areas that have received less attention, such as the role of ambiguity in actual usage. The detailed analysis of rich, contextualised material from a selection of texts dovetails with large-scale corpus studies, complementing their findings and enhancing our understanding of the phenomena. This monograph thus presents a happy marriage of traditional philological techniques and recent advances in theoretical linguistics and corpus work. 410 0$aBrill's studies in historical linguistics ;$vVolume 10. 606 $aEnglish language$xTense 615 0$aEnglish language$xTense. 676 $a425/.62 700 $aHristov$b Bozhil$f1984-$01527433 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795283503321 996 $aGrammaticalising the perfect and explanations of language change$93770247 997 $aUNINA