The semantics of auxiliary verbs and affixes
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BICLCE (Bamberg, Germany), 2019
Cette contribution s’attache à présenter la conception des temps verbaux et l’analyse des formes temporelles proposées par Lucien Tesnière dans le cadre de sa syntaxe structurale. L’article dégage les potentialités de son approche,... more
This paper tackles the concepts of ‘Variation’ and ‘Specialization’, frequently used in grammaticalization theory, within the context of progressive aspectual periphrases and from a comparative perspective French-Dutch. Drawing on... more
The paper proposes an analysis of the auxiliary 'will' as a relatively independent syntactic unit at the level of utterance. The functioning of the verb reveals that there are two basic aspects of its grammatical meaning which are... more
"The analysis of the literary Tibetan verb system is an object of typological interest for several reasons. Firstly, it allows us to look at the evolution of the verb system notably auxiliary verb constructions and clause linking during a... more
Copala Triqui has a construction in which predicates of emotion and psychological state appear with one of two special auxiliary verbs, derived historically from verbs meaning 'see' and 'look'. This paper details the constraints on the... more
Gramerleşme dilin evrim süreci içinde bir sözlükbirimin biçimbirime dönüşmesi şeklinde tanımlanabilir. Yalnız kelimelerin ekleşmesi olmayan gramerleşmede, bazı bağımsız kelimeler ek haline gelip sonradan sesbirimleşirken bazıları yardımcı... more
Tense, Aspect, and Evidentiality forms in Kumejima Janado Okinawan
Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach on the syntax and semantics of the two Spanish auxiliary verbs haber and tener and their distributional properties. It is argued that these verbs share key syntactic properties, but denote... more
Dilde yeni ihtiyaçları, yeni kavramları karşılamak, söz varlığını geliştirmek ve zenginleştirmek üzere çeşitli unsurlar kullanılır. İşte birleşik fiiller ve onun bir alt grubu olan tasvir fiilleri de bu amaçla kullanılmaktadır.... more
The proposed paper suggests an analysis of English auxiliaries 'would' and 'used to' that are used in descriptions of habitual past-time events. As evidenced by linguistic data, both verbs evoke the experiential grounding of the clausal... more