Kathryn Leffel
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kathryn Leffel is involved.
Article
1994 The Middle English Reanalysis of DO Diachronica 11:2, pp. 171–198 | Article
SUMMARY Formal (syntactic, distributional) and functional evidence are presented that do did not develop directly from a lexical (causative) verb to a dummy tense-carrier (member of INFL Phrase), but first became an aspectual auxiliary on a par with have and be. Relying on the historical principle… read more
