Auxiliary Selection Revisited - Gradience and Gradualness

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.

About the author

ROLF KAILUWEIT, geb. 1965, Dr. phil., Habilitation 2003 über Syntax und Semantik französischer und italienischer Gefühlsverben, derzeit Professor für Sprach- und Medienwissenschaft am Romanischen Seminar der Universität Freiburg. Arbeitsschwerpunkte u.a. Katalanisch, Korsisch, Role and Reference Grammar und Tangomedia.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rol Kailuweit (Editor), Rolf Kailuweit (Editor), Rosemeyer (Editor), Rosemeyer (Editor), Malte Rosemeyer (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2015
• EAN: 9783110347371
• ISBN: 978-3-11-034737-1
• No. of pages: 364
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 32 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 671 g
• Illustrations: 12 b/w ill.
• Series: linguae & litterae; linguae & litterae; ISSN; linguae & litterae, 44
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics