English Auxiliaries: Structure and History

ISBN: 9780521103213 出版年：1993 页码：310 Anthony R Warner Cambridge University Press

Preface 1. Basic properties of English auxiliaries 2. The morphosyntactic independence of auxiliaries 3. A formal interlude: the grammar of English auxiliaries 4. Distinguishing auxiliaries and verbs in early English 5. Identifying an 'auxiliary group' before Modern English sentence-level syntax 6. Identifying an 'auxiliary group' before Modern English: further properties of 'modals' 7. The developing modal semantics of early English 'modals' 8. The status of modals and auxiliaries before Modern English and the rise of do 9. Conclusions Notes References Indexes.