The Origin and Development of Periphrasic Auxiliary Do : A Case of Destigmatisation
- Author / Editor
- Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid.
The Origin and Development of Periphrasic Auxiliary Do : A Case of Destigmatisation
- Published
- North-Western European Language Evolution 16 (1990): 3-52.
- Description
- Through a largely comparative approach, the author draws on sources that have remained almost unexploited, whether dialectical or belonging to the standard language. Evidence from Dutch, Frisian, German, and Chaucer's English (a three-year-old boy's utterance in MkT) suggests that the periphrastic auxiliary has always existed as a simplified language device typical of children's language.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.