Auxiliaries Cognitive Forces and Grammaticalization
“Auxiliaries Cognitive Forces and Grammaticalization” by Bernd Heine, published by Oxford University Press in 1993, offers a detailed examination of the role of auxiliaries within language structure. This 162-page study presents a perspective that emphasizes the importance of extra-linguistic parameters, suggesting that understanding language requires more than just linguistic variables. Heine argues that cognitive forces and pragmatic manipulation significantly influence how we perceive and communicate our experiences, shaping language as a dynamic entity.
Readers will find that the book explores the emergence of grammaticalization chains, using auxiliaries as key examples of these structures. Heine discusses a limited number of concrete event schemas, illustrating how they contribute to the linguistic diversity observed in auxiliary constructions across different languages. This work intersects various fields, including linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology, making it relevant for those interested in the intricate relationship between language and cognition.
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Offering a new perspective on auxiliaries in particular and language structure in general, this study argues that language cannot be explained satisfactorily with reference to linguistic variables alone; what is required in addition are extra-linguistic parameters relating to how we perceive the world around us, and how we utilize the linguistic resources available to us to conceptualize our experiences, and to communicate successfully. Rather than a closed, self-contained system, language is an entity that is constantly shaped by such external factors as cognitive forces, pragmatic manipulation, history, etc. These factors are responsible for the emergence of chain-like linguistic structures, and auxiliaries are typical examples of such structures, which Heine describes as grammaticalization chains. A limited number of concrete event schemas are discussed and these schemas are shown to be responsible for much of the linguistic diversity that auxiliary constructions exhibit in the languages of the world.
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