Auxiliary Selection Revisited : Gradience and Gradualness

Malte Rosemeyer

ISBN 10: 3110347377 / ISBN 13: 9783110347371

Published by De Gruyter, 2015

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Auxiliary Selection Revisited : Gradience and Gradualness
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110347377
• ISBN 13: 9783110347371
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 160H x 32D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 32 millimeters depth
• Weight: 775 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Rolf Kailuweit and Malte Rosemeyer, University of Freiburg, Germany.