30.4510, Books: Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change: Hristov

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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:12:26
From: Clovis Jaillet [Jaillet at Brill.com]
Subject: Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change: Hristov

 


Title: Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change 
Subtitle: Have- and Be-Perfects in the History and Structure of English and Bulgarian 
Series Title: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: https://brill.com/view/title/54227 


Author: Bozhil Hristov

Electronic: ISBN:  9789004414051 Pages: 368 Price: Europe EURO 116
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004414327 Pages: 368 Price: Europe EURO 116


Abstract:

In Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change: Have- and
Be-Perfects in the History and Structure of English and Bulgarian, Bozhil
Hristov investigates key aspects of the verbal systems of two distantly
related Indo-European languages, highlighting similarities as well as crucial
differences between them and seeking a unified approach. 

The book reassesses some long-held notions and functionalist assumptions and
shines the spotlight on certain areas that have received less attention, such
as the role of ambiguity in actual usage. The detailed analysis of rich,
contextualised material from a selection of texts dovetails with large-scale
corpus studies, complementing their findings and enhancing our understanding
of the phenomena. This monograph thus presents a happy marriage of traditional
philological techniques and recent advances in theoretical linguistics and
corpus work.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Bulgarian (bul)
                     English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European


Written In: English  (eng)

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