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Auxiliary Verb Constructions (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory)

By Gregory D. S. Anderson

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2006
ISBN
0199280312, 9780199280315, 9781435623262
LCC
P281 .A49 2009
Open Library ID
OL22731501M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2565916 bytes)
Pages
496\492
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

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.

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