Auxiliary selection revisited: gradience and gradualness
Éditeur :
De Gruyter
ISBN :
9783110347371
Date de publication :
26 févr. 2015
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,5 cm
Poids :
670 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Allemagne
From a typological perspective, auxiliary selection - the alternation between have and be in participle constructions - presents both striking regularities and differences. In this book, the papers presented describe and explain this variation on the basis of synchronic and diachronic evidence from a multitude of European languages.