Auxiliary selection in Spanish : gradience, gradualness, and conservation /

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Author / Creator:	Rosemeyer, Malte, author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in language companion series ; 155 Studies in language companion series ; 155.
Subject:	Spanish language -- Variation. Spanish language -- Study and teaching. Spanish language -- Study and teaching. Spanish language -- Variation. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11225481

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ISBN:	9789027270405 9027270406 9789027259202 9027259208
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Although usage-based linguistics emphasises the need for studies of language change to take frequency effects into account, there is a lack of research that tries to systematically model frequency effects and their relation to diffusion processes in language change. This monograph offers a diachronic study of the change in Spanish perfect auxiliary selection between Old and Early Modern Spanish that led to the gradual replacement of the auxiliary ser 'be' with the auxiliary haber 'have'. It analyses this process in terms of the interaction between gradience, gradualness, and the conserving eff.
Other form:	Print version: Rosemeyer, Malte. Auxiliary selection in Spanish 9789027259202

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