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Auxiliary selection in Spanish : gradience, gradualness, and conservation /

Although usage-based linguistics emphasises the need for studies of language change to take frequency effects into account, there is a lack of research that tries to systematically model frequency effects and their relation to diffusion processes in language change. This monograph offers a diachroni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosemeyer, Malte (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; 155.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Although usage-based linguistics emphasises the need for studies of language change to take frequency effects into account, there is a lack of research that tries to systematically model frequency effects and their relation to diffusion processes in language change. This monograph offers a diachronic study of the change in Spanish perfect auxiliary selection between Old and Early Modern Spanish that led to the gradual replacement of the auxiliary ser 'be' with the auxiliary haber 'have'. It analyses this process in terms of the interaction between gradience, gradualness, and the conserving eff.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027270405
9027270406