Syntactic and Semantic Change Within the Modal Systems of English and Afrikaans

Chapters in this book

1. I-VIII I
2. Section (a): General Problems
3. Introductory Paper 3
4. From Auxiliary to Desinence 21
5. Copula Auxiliarization: How and Why? 53
6. Auxiliaries and Ergative Splits: A Typological Parameter 85
7. Section (b): Germanic Languages
8. The Auxiliarization of the English Modals: A Functional Grammar View 111
9. On the Use of the Modal Auxiliaries Indicating ‘Possibility’ in Early American English 145
10. Semantic Change in Modal Auxiliaries as a Result of Speech Act Embedding 171
11. Syntactic and Semantic Change Within the Modal Systems of English and Afrikaans 181
12. Section (c): Romance Languages
13. The Strategy and Chronology of the Development of Future and Perfect Tense Auxiliaries in Latin 193
14. Syntactic Restructuring in the Evolution of Romance Auxiliaries 225
15. The Interaction of Periphrasis and Inflection: Some Romance Examples 237
16. The Evolution of Romance Auxiliaries: Criteria and Chronology 257
17. Section (d): ‘Exotic’ Languages
18. Auxiliaries in Khotanese 271
19. The Development of the AUX-category in Pidgins and Creoles: The Case of the Resultative-perfective and its Relation to Anteriority 291
20. AUX in Basque 317
21. Auxiliaries in ‘Exotic’ Languages 345
22. Subject Index 355
23. Index of Names 363
24. Index of Languages 367