<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Aigul,</div><div><br></div><div>A very interesting topic. I am not entirely sure this fits into the type of phenomena you are looking for, but as I read your inquiry I am reminded of the grammaticalization of cleft(-like) constructions which, as Hengeveld (1992: 280) puts it, "can now be interpreted as a clever means of introducing a dummy auxiliary which is capable of carrying its own tense, mood, aspect, and polarity operators, thus creating a versatile auxiliary predication type". Below is one of the examples given by the author, from Imbabura Quechua, where a third person singular copula unexpectedly (from a synchronic point of view) co-occurs with a first personl plural subject.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_kvzqwqbw0" alt="immagine.png" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="306" height="99"><br></div><div>Ref.:<font face="Arial"> Hengeveld, Kees (1992), <i>Non-verbal predication: Theory,
typology, diachrony.
</i>Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">Hope this helps, cheers,</font></div><div><font face="Arial">Riccardo<br></font>
</div><div></div></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Riccardo Giomi, Ph.D.<br></div>University of Liège</div><div dir="ltr">
Département de langues modernes : linguistique, littérature et traduction</div><div dir="ltr">Research group <i>Linguistique contrastive et typologie des langues</i></div><div>F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoctoral fellow (CR - FC 43095)</div><div><i></i></div></div></div></div>