Verbal Periphrases in Romance: Aspect, Actionality, and Grammaticalization (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT])
Editorial WALTER DE GRUYTER
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial WALTER DE GRUYTER
- ISBN13 9783110161601
- ISBN10 3110161605
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 380
- Col.lecció Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] #
- Any Edició 1998
- Idioma Anglès
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Editorial WALTER DE GRUYTER
Espanya peninsular
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"The author has produced an excellent work on the diachrony and synchrony, on the meaning, distribution, and form of the progressive constructions in the Romance languages. This is a book that can be highly recommended to any linguist interested in periphrastic constructions, their origin and their grammaticalization, and in the interplay of aspect, actionality, and aktionsart." (Rolf Thieroff, Romance Philology 56/2003)
A detailed synchronic and diachronic examination of the semantics of Romance verbal periphrases, including the range of Romance progressives, as well as Portuguese and Mexican present perfects, Catalan analytic past and French "surcomposes". The volume focuses on the relationship between aspect and actionality (Actionsart) in the grammaticalization process of periphrastic constructions.