Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change : Have- and Be-Perfects in the History and Structure of English and Bulgarian.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hristov, Bozhil
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2019.
Colección:Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics Ser.
Temas:
English language > Tense.
English language > Tense
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Transliteration from Cyrillic
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Theoretical Preliminaries
  • 2.1 Evolutionary and Functionalist Models of Language Change
  • 2.1.1 Evolutionary Linguistics
  • 2.1.2 The Concepts of Function and Functional Load, the Invisible Hand and Teleology
  • 2.1.3 Problems and Challenges
  • 2.1.4 Interim Summary and Preview
  • 2.2 Grammaticalisation and Reanalysis
  • 2.2.1 Grammaticalisation
  • 2.2.2 Reanalysis in the Context of Grammaticalisation
  • 2.2.3 The Role of Frequency and Contact in Grammaticalisation
  • 2.3 Other Preliminaries
  • 2.3.1 Progress
  • 2.3.2 Randomness
  • 2.3.3 Justification
  • 2.4 Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 The Story of the English Perfect
  • 3.1 Perfect with Have
  • 3.1.1 Terminological and Etymological Preliminaries
  • 3.1.2 The Have-Perfect in Old English: Morphological Marking, Ambiguity, and Reanalysis
  • 3.1.3 Perfect with OE agan
  • 3.1.4 Increased Use and Greater Degree of Grammaticalisation of the Have-Perfect in Middle and Modern English
  • 3.2 The Origin and Status of the Be-Perfect
  • 3.3 Competition between the Be- and the Have-Perfect
  • 3.4 Traditional Accounts for the Decline of the Be-Perfect
  • 3.4.1 Frequency
  • 3.4.2 Functional Load and Ambiguity
  • 3.4.3 Functional Load and the Disappearance of OE weorðan
  • 3.4.4 Ambiguity in the Contexts of Coordination and Contraction
  • 3.5 Problems for the Traditional View
  • 3.5.1 Agreement and Perfect Readings
  • 3.5.2 Proliferation of the Functions of Have
  • 3.5.2.1 Passive Have
  • 3.5.2.2 Causative Have
  • 3.5.2.3 Modal Have
  • 3.5.2.4 Summary
  • 3.5.3 Development of Alternative Passives and Perfects
  • 3.5.3.1 Passives with Get
  • 3.5.3.2 Perfects and Causatives with Get
  • 3.5.3.3 New Be-Perfects
  • 3.5.4 Corpus Data and Statistics
  • 3.5.5 Alternative Explanations
  • 3.6 Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 The Development of the Perfect in a Selection of Old English Texts
  • 4.1 Objectives of the Study
  • 4.2 Issues in Corpus Work and Compilation
  • 4.3 Choice of Text Samples and Approach
  • 4.4 The Perfect in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
  • 4.4.1 Introduction and Background
  • 4.4.2 Analysis and Discussion
  • 4.4.2.1 Manuscript A: Eighth Century
  • 4.4.2.2 Some Notes on OE Agreement
  • 4.4.2.3 Manuscript A: Ninth Century
  • 4.4.2.4 Manuscript A: Late Ninth and Early Tenth Centuries
  • 4.4.2.5 Manuscript E (Peterborough Chronicle): Late Tenth and Early Eleventh Centuries
  • 4.5 Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 Further Development of the Perfect Based on a Selection of Texts
  • from Middle into Modern English
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 The Fourteenth Century: Chaucer
  • 5.2.1 Introduction and Background
  • 5.2.2 Analysis and Discussion
  • 5.3 The Fifteenth Century: The Second Shepherds' Play (Secunda Pastorum)
  • 5.3.1 Introduction and Background
  • 5.3.2 Analysis and Discussion
  • 5.4 The Sixteenth Century: Shakespeare

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