Complex Verb Forms from Fused Auxiliary Verb Constructions
This chapter examines and exemplifies various kinds of fusing of original bi-partite auxiliary verb constructions into complex verb forms. It addresses the historical (phonological) developments of integration, etc., that typify the changes from AVCs to complex verb forms of numerous types. Many languages possess complex verb forms whose origin lies in the fusing of some type of auxiliary verb construction. This includes the simple univerbation of AVCs of all the inflectional macro-types into complex verb forms, the origins of which may range from quite transparent to entirely opaque. A further such development is seen in the emergence (attested in a range of unrelated languages) of what appear to be tense/aspect/mood encoding (usually subject) pronouns. In many such cases, these latter represent the fusing of a subject marker/pronoun and an auxiliary element.
Keywords: bi-partite, integration, univerbation, diachronic developments, doubled inflection, phonological developments, serial verb construction, split inflection
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .