Auxiliary Verb Constructions
Oxford University Press, USA | 2006 | ISBN: 0199280312 | 496 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Oxford University Press, USA | 2006 | ISBN: 0199280312 | 496 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of the auxiliary verb construction. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages Dr Anderson examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles. He investigates and explains the historical changes leading to the cross-linguistic diversity of inflectional patterns, and presents his results within a new typological framework. He reveals much that is new about the language families of the world and makes an important contribution to the understanding of their nature and evolution.
Review
Anderson handsomely accomplishes what he set out to do, and provides a solid basis for continued cross-linguistic study of AVCs. No one interested in auxiliary phenomena can afford to ignore its contents and its analyses. Sanford B. Steever, Linguistlist An insightful and thorough study...an impressive book with lots of examples, very well-produced...I very much like this study, since it provides a different way of looking at auxiliaries. Elly van Gelderen, Studies in Language
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