The GO-future and GO-past periphrases in Gallo-Romance: A comparative investigation

Investigating Gallo-Romance GO-past and GO-future periphrases, this chapter proposes that they originate from the same construction, in which the basic spatial meaning of GO is reinterpreted as temporal posteriority. Building on an intuition by Bres and Labeau (2013a) that the periphrasis itself is...

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Main Authors: Paoli, S, Wolfe, S
Other Authors: Ledgeway, A
Format: Book section
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2022