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Author Hristov, Bozhil

Title Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change : Have- and Be-Perfects in the History and Structure of English and Bulgarian
Published Boston : BRILL, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (384 pages)
Series Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics Ser
Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics Ser
Contents 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
Notes 5.4.1 Introduction and Background
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Subject English language -- Tense.
English language -- Tense
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004414051
9004414053