Verbal periphrases in Romance: aspect, actionality, and grammaticalization

Review text: "The author has produced an excellent work on the diachrony and synchrony, on the meaning, distribution, and form of the progressive constructions in the Romance languages. This is a book that can be highly recommended to any linguist interested in periphrastic constructions, their...

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Main Author: Squartini, Mario 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin De Gruyter Mouton [2011]
Series:Empirical approaches to language typology 21
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Online Access:DE-188
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Summary:Review text: "The author has produced an excellent work on the diachrony and synchrony, on the meaning, distribution, and form of the progressive constructions in the Romance languages. This is a book that can be highly recommended to any linguist interested in periphrastic constructions, their origin and their grammaticalization, and in the interplay of aspect, actionality, and aktionsart." (Rolf Thieroff, Romance Philology 56/2003)
Item Description:Originalausgabe 1998 erschienen, Reprint 2012
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 370 S.)
ISBN:9783110805291
DOI:10.1515/9783110805291

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