Auxiliary selection revisited : gradience and gradualness /
From a typological perspective, auxiliary selection - the alternation between have and be in participle constructions - presents both striking regularities and differences. The papers presented in this volume describe and explain this variation on the basis of synchronic and diachronic evidence from...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
2015
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| Series: | Linguae & litterae ;
44. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | From a typological perspective, auxiliary selection - the alternation between have and be in participle constructions - presents both striking regularities and differences. The papers presented in this volume describe and explain this variation on the basis of synchronic and diachronic evidence from a multitude of European languages. The volume is thus of high relevance to students of auxiliary selection, and morphosyntactic variation in general. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783110348866 3110348861 3110386437 9783110386431 |
| Language: | English. |
