Auxiliary Verb Constructions

Zusatztext ...an insightul and through study of many auxiliary verb constuctions...an impressive book...I very much like this study, since it provides a different way of looking at auxiliaries. Informationen zum Autor Gregory D. S. Anderson is Director of Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. He is engaged in primary descriptive, typological, and comparative research on endangered languages of south-central Siberia,Turkic languages, the isolate Burushaski language of northern Pakistan, the Eleme language of Nigeria, and the Tibeto-Burman languages and Munda languages of India. He is also the primary developer of the Language Hotspots list and map. He has written fieldwork-based descriptive grammars, bilingual dictionaries, and books on typology, comparative/historical and historical/sociolinguistic topics in Turkic linguistics as well as numerous articles on a range of typological, areal, and historical linguistic topics. Klappentext This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of the auxiliary verb construction. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages the author examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles, and investigates the historical changes leading to the cross-linguistic diversity of inflectional patterns. Zusammenfassung This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of the auxiliary verb construction. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages the author examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles, and investigates the historical changes leading to the cross-linguistic diversity of inflectional patterns.

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• Authors: Gregory D. S. Anderson, Gregory D. S. (Living Tongues Institute Anderson, Gregory D. S. (Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages) Anderson, Gregory D.S. Anderson, Gregory D.S. ( Anderson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2009
• EAN: 9780199563296
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956329-6
• No. of pages: 492
• Series: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory; Oxford Studies in Typology and; Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory; Oxford Studies in Typology and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Language acquisition, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics