num_pages: 496
description: This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of the auxiliary verb construction. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages Dr Anderson examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles. He investigates and explains the historical changes leading to the cross-linguistic diversity of inflectional patterns, and presents his results within a new typological framework. He reveals much that is new about the language families of the world and makes an important contribution to the understanding of their nature and evolution.
language: English
title: Auxiliary Verb Constructions
titlecomplete: Auxiliary Verb Constructions (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Oxford University Press