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Oxford University Press, USA, 2001-12-06. Hardcover. Like New. 0.6600 in x 9.5000 in x 6.3600 in. DJ with very minor shelf wear to edges. This text probes the nature of grammaticalization on the basis of an in-depth study of the process of auxiliation. Auxiliation is understood as the development of constructions into markers of tense, aspect, and modality. The book contributes to the theory of grammaticalization (and language change in general), grammatical typology, and also to the study of human communication. Its originality lies on the one hand in the uncovering of new linguistic facts involving, among other things, the identification of the category of the avertive as a cross-linguistically valid grammatical distinction. On the other hand, it offers a new perspective on how grammaticalization happens in everyday linguistic communication. Particularly revealing is the study of the potential role that abductive reasoning and mismatches in discourse world knowledge between speaker and hearer play…
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Auxiliation An Enquiry into the Nature of Grammaticalization (Oxford Linguistics) Hardcover - 2001
by Tania Kuteva
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Auxiliaries develop out of lexical sources.
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- Title Auxiliation An Enquiry into the Nature of Grammaticalization (Oxford Linguistics)
- Author Tania Kuteva
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
- Date November 19, 2001
- ISBN 9780198299745
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