Auxiliary Verb Constructions

by Gregory D.S. Anderson

This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of auxiliary verb constructions (as in, for example, '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, and
investigates and explains the historical changes leading to the cross-linguistic diversity of inflectional patterns. He presents his results within a new typological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199563292
• ISBN13: 9780199563296
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"