Auxiliation: An Enquiry Into the Nature of GrammaticalizationBringing together the explanatory potential of recent grammaticalization theory, and the insights from the latest studies of the process of auxiliation and the psychology of language use, this book represents a valuable achievement in the investigation of grammatical language change and linguistic communication in general. |
Contents
The ConceptualSemantic Aspect of Auxiliation | 19 |
Identifying a Gram in Auxiliation across Languages | 75 |
Auxiliation in Discourse Context | 113 |
From Everyday Linguistic Communication | 167 |
Conclusions | 177 |
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Further Reading | 210 |
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abductive reasoning adposition adverbial analysis approach argue aspect aspectual auxiliary verb auxiliation auxiliation chain auxiliation development avertive gram bodily posture verbs Bybee cognitive Colognese conceptual conceptual-semantic continuative/durative/progressive copula counterfactual cross-linguistic diachronic discourse knowledge discourse world knowledge discourse-pragmatic encoding English example exist fact floating tone function future future imperfective future-in-past German going gram grammaticalization chain guages Haiman hearer Heine historical Hopper and Traugott ical imperfective implicature inferences infinitive interpretation involves John Benjamins Kabyle Kuteva language change lexeme linguistic expression locative locus for change main verb Mandan marker mismatch between speaker's modality Modern Bulgarian morpheme morphosyntactic nearly fell non-past non-shared discourse notion noun Old Bulgarian operate on Ivan participle particular Past Volition periphrastic phonological present proposed proximative reinterpretation semantic change she/he spatial position speaker speaker's and hearer's specification Stage šte šteše štjax suffix Swedish temporal tense testees tion utterance verb situation verb structure volitional verb want.3PL.IMPRF CONJ.PTCL want.3SG.IMPRF xotěti