Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change

Have- And Be-Perfects in the History and Structure of English and Bulgarian
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41432-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 718 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hristov, Bozhil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Bozhil Hristov, D.Phil. (2012), Oxford University, is a lecturer at the University of Sofia, where he teaches grammar and historical linguistics. His academic interests lie in the history and structure of English and Bulgarian, with work published in the Journal of Linguistics and CSLI.