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Auxiliary Verb Constructions (Hardcover, New)
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Auxiliary Verb Constructions (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
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This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of auxiliary
verb constructions, as in 'he could have been going to drink it'
and 'she does eat cheese'. 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 he presents his results within a new typological framework. The
book's impressive range includes data on variation within and
across languages and language families. In addition to examining
languages in Africa, Europe, and Asia the author presents analyses
of languages in Australasia and the Pacific and in North, South,
and Meso-America. In doing so 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. His book will
interest scholars and researchers in language typology, historical
and comparative linguistics, syntax, and morphology.
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