Auxiliation: an enquiry into the nature of grammaticalization
Auteur :
Kuteva
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199265053
Date de publication :
8 janv. 2004
Dimensions :
23,3 x 15,4 x 1,3 cm
Poids :
320 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Auxiliation describes the process by which auxiliary verbs - such as do, may, must, will, and have - develop from lexical verbs meaning exist, possess, hold, etc. The sequence of verb followed by complement turns into the grammatical structure of marker followed by main verb. Tania Kuteva presents a cross-linguistic study of the phenomenon.