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Auxiliation - An Enquiry into the Nature of Grammaticalization

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Zusatztext a valuable ocntribution to the theory of grammaticalization and language change Informationen zum Autor Tania Kuteva is Professor of English Linguistics at the Institute for English Studies, University of Düsseldorf. She has worked with Professor Bernd Heine on the rise of grammatical functions in the languages of the world. He main publications are in the areas of grammaticalization and typology. This is her first book. Klappentext Bringing together the explanatory potential of recent grammaticalization theory! and the insights from the latest studies of the process of auxiliation and the psychology of language use! this book represents a valuable achievement in the investigation of grammatical language change and linguistic communication in general. Zusammenfassung Auxiliation describes the process by which auxiliary verbs - such as do, may, must, will, and have - develop from lexical verbs meaning exist, possess, hold, etc. The sequence of verb followed by complement turns into the grammatical structure of marker followed by main verb. Tania Kuteva presents a cross-linguistic study of the phenomenon. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.: Introduction and Historical Overview 2.: The Conceptual-Semantic Aspect of Auxiliation 3.: On 'Functional Need' Explanations in Auxiliation 4.: Identifying a Gram in Auxiliation Across Languages 5.: Auxiliation in Discourse Context 6.: From Everyday Linguistic Communication to Grammaticalization 7.: Conclusion

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