The HAVE/BE alternation in Scandinavian – perfects, resultatives and unaccusative structure

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Section 1: (Limits of) Semantic and syntactic gradience
5. The cognitive complexity of auxiliary selection: from processing to grammaticality judgements 23
6. Perfective auxiliation with reflexives in Medieval Romance: syntactic vs. semantic gradients 43
7. Auxiliary selection with intransitive and reflexive verbs: the limits of gradience and scalarity, followed by a proposal 79
8. Section 2: Between constructional variation and auxiliary selection
9. On the irrealis effect on auxiliary selection 123
10. The HAVE/BE alternation in Scandinavian – perfects, resultatives and unaccusative structure 145
11. A constructional approach to auxiliary selection: evidence from existential constructions 183
12. Periphrasis as a precursor of analytic inflection: auxiliation in the (pre-)history of German 213
13. Section 3: Mechanisms of Gradual Change: BE > HAVE and HAVE > BE
14. BE or HAVE in Contemporary Standard French – residua of semantic motivation 249
15. The auxiliary selection of French monter ‘move upward’ from the 16^th to the 20^th century 277
16. Entrenchment and discourse traditions in Spanish auxiliary selection 301
17. Auxiliary selection in closely related languages: the case of German and Dutch 333
18. General index 359
19. Language index 363