Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Contents vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Passives
7. Venire (‘come’) as a passive auxiliary in Italian1 21
8. Passive in motion: the Early Italian auxiliary andare (‘to go’) 45
9. The Multiple Grammaticalization of Romanian veni ‘come’. Focusing on the Passive Construction 69
10. Mood and modality
11. When come and go go necessive 103
12. Go and come as sources of directive constructions 165
13. Discourse functions
14. The Spanish auxiliary ir ‘to go’: from resultative motion verb to focus marker 187
15. On the grammaticalization of venga ‘come’ as a discourse marker in Peninsular Spanish 219
16. The grammaticalization of ‘go’ as an intensifier in Supyire 249
17. Motion verbs in Shangaci: lexical semantics and discourse functions 281
18. Conclusion
19. How far have we come and where do we go from here? Discussion and directions for further research 321
20. Subject index 337
21. Language index 341