Auxiliary selection and counterfactuality in the history of English and Germanic
- The retreat of BE as perfect auxiliary in the history of English is examined. Corpus data are presented showing that the initial advance of HAVE was most closely connected to a restriction against BE in past counterfactuals. Other factors which have been reported to favor the spread of HAVE are either dependent on the counterfactual effect, or significantly weaker in comparison. It is argued that the effect can be traced to the semantics of the BE perfect, which denoted resultativity rather than anteriority proper. Related data from other older Germanic and Romance languages are presented, and finally implications for existing theories of auxiliary selection stemming from the findings presented are discussed.
Author: | Thomas McFaddenORCiD, Artemis AlexiadouORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1108545 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/la.97.12mcf |
ISBN: | 9789027233615 |
ISBN: | 9789027293169 |
Parent Title (English): | Comparative studies in Germanic syntax : from Afrikaans to Zurich German, Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistics Today ; 97 |
Publisher: | J. Benjamins Pub. |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA |
Editor: | Jutta M. Hartmann, László Molnárfi |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2006 |
Date of first Publication: | 2006/11/22 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2008/09/24 |
GND Keyword: | Englisch; Deutsch; Hilfsverb |
Page Number: | 25 |
First Page: | [237] |
Last Page: | [262] |
Source: | http://ifla.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiter/tom/project/papers/cgsw20pap.pdf ; Comparative Studies in Germanic Syntax, hrsg.v. Jutta M. Hartmann/Lászloacute Molnárfi (Amsterdam 2006), S. 237-262 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 205650848 |
Institutes: | keine Angabe Fachbereich / Extern |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachgeschichte / History of language |
Licence (German): | ![]() |