Auxiliary Verb Constructions
by Gregory D. S. Anderson
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 show more on variation within and across languages and language families. In addition to examining languages in A show lessTags
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Gregory D. S. Anderson is Director of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. His key publications include The Munda Verb: Typological Perspectives (2007). Auxiliary Verb Constructions (2006), and Language Contact in South Central Siberia (2005).
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