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- Title
The diachrony of light and auxiliary verbs in Indo-Aryan.
- Authors
Slade, Benjamin
- Abstract
This study examines the historical development of light verbs in Indo-Aryan. I investigate the origins of the modern Indo-Aryan compound verb construction, and compare this construction with other light verb constructions in Indo-Aryan. Examination of the antecedents of the Indo-Aryan compound verb construction alongside other Indo-Aryan light verb constructions, combined with analysis of lexical and morphosyntactic differences between the compound verb systems of two Indo-Aryan languages (Hindi and Nepali), demonstrate that light verbs are not a stable or unchanging part of grammar, but rather undergo a variety of changes, including reanalysis as tense/aspect auxiliaries.
- Subjects
SYNTAX (Grammar); MORPHOLOGY (Grammar); VERBS; GRAMMATICALIZATION; INDO-Aryan languages; HINDI language; NEPALI language; SANSKRIT language
- Publication
Diachronica, 2013, Vol 30, Issue 4, p531
- ISSN
0176-4225
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/dia.30.4.04sla