Auxiliaries: Cognitive Forces and Grammaticalization

by Bernd Heine

Book Overview

Offering a new perspective on auxiliaries in particular and language structure in general, this study argues that language cannot be explained satisfactorily with reference to linguistic variables alone; what is required in addition are extra-linguistic parameters relating to how we perceive the world around us, and how we utilize the linguistic resources available to us to conceptualize our experiences, and to communicate successfully. Rather than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195083873
• ISBN13: 9780195083873
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.0"