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Abstract
This chapter discusses the emergence of the HAVE perfect in English, paying particular attention to the development of the perfect participle, as a vehicle for discussing what causes directionality in language change, the English HAVE perfect being just one example of the emergence of a category which is a common property of Standard Average European. There are three main claims: that the change to a HAVE perfect only involves one strictly syntactic change, the reanalysis of a complement as an adjunct; that there are semantic changes in the participle driven by the bleaching of HAVE; and that the emergent new category of participle is driven by these semantic changes. The evolution of participles involves the creation of a new linguistic category, in a particular grammatical environment, which is analogous to an ecological niche in evolutionary change.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Word Grammar, Cognition and Dependency |
| Editors | Eva Duran Eppler, Nikolas Gisborne, Andrew Rosta |
| Place of Publication | Cambridge |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Chapter | 3 |
| Pages | 76-103 |
| Volume | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781009037051, 9781009037341 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781316517062 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2025 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- HAVE perfect
- BE perfect
- parallel evolution
- directionality in chage
- grammaticalisation
- acquisition
- participles
- mixed categories
- conversation
- reanalysis
- category emergence
- causal structure
- cognitive bias
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Word Grammar, Cognition and Dependency
Duran Eppler, E. (Editor), Gisborne, N. (Editor) & Rosta, A. (Editor), 2025, 1 ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book