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Auxiliary Selection Revisited

2015-03-05 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Auxiliary Selection Revisited by : Rolf Kailuweit

Download or read book Auxiliary Selection Revisited written by Rolf Kailuweit. This book was released on 2015-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Auxiliary Selection in Spanish

2014-04-15 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2014-04-15
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Book Synopsis Auxiliary Selection in Spanish by : Malte Rosemeyer

Download or read book Auxiliary Selection in Spanish written by Malte Rosemeyer. This book was released on 2014-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although usage-based linguistics emphasises the need for studies of language change to take frequency effects into account, there is a lack of research that tries to systematically model frequency effects and their relation to diffusion processes in language change. This monograph offers a diachronic study of the change in Spanish perfect auxiliary selection between Old and Early Modern Spanish that led to the gradual replacement of the auxiliary ser ‘be’ with the auxiliary haber ‘have’. It analyses this process in terms of the interaction between gradience, gradualness, and the conserving effects of frequency and persistence in language change. The study contributes to the theory and methodology of diachronic linguistics, additionally offering insights on how to explain synchronic grammatical variation both within a language and between languages. The book is of interest to the fields of Spanish and Romance linguistics, syntax, as well as historical and variationist linguistics.

Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax

2017-09-25 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2017-09-25
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Book Synopsis Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax by : Andreas Dufter

Download or read book Manual of Romance Morphosyntax and Syntax written by Andreas Dufter. This book was released on 2017-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects. We define syntax as being the linguistic component that assembles linguistic units, such as roots or functional morphemes, into grammatical sentences, and morphosyntax as being an umbrella term for all morphological relations between these linguistic units, which either trigger morphological marking (e.g. explicit case morphemes) or are related to ordering issues (e.g. subjects precede finite verbs whenever there is number agreement between them). All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross-linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the Romance language family. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual Romance languages, and grammatical change from Latin to Romance.

Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance

2016-09-12 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2016-09-12
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Book Synopsis Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance by : Susann Fischer

Download or read book Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance written by Susann Fischer. This book was released on 2016-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately represent this in grammatical theory. The volume provides a general overview of various topics in the linguistics of Romance languages by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components and functions as a state-of-the-art report, but at the same time as a manual of Romance languages.

Studies in Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Grammaticalization, Refunctionalization and Beyond

2019-10-23 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2019-10-23
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Book Synopsis Studies in Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Grammaticalization, Refunctionalization and Beyond by : Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen

Download or read book Studies in Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Grammaticalization, Refunctionalization and Beyond written by Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen. This book was released on 2019-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume examines the usefulness of a particular set of concepts and processes of change studying their applicability to a range of linguistic changes in Spanish and Latin that cannot be easily or can only be partially accounted for within the framework of grammaticalization. Rather than challenging the insights of grammaticalization theory, the different contributions to this monograph demonstrate that exaptation, capitalization, refunctionalization and adfunctionalization, as well as changes motivated by rhetorical guidelines, constitute interesting and valuable notions that allow for a better understanding of specific language changes in Spanish and, by extension, of language change in general.

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