Edited by Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó
[Figurative Thought and Language 16] 2022
► pp. 113–140
The present paper re-addresses two standard examples of grammaticalization research, i.e. the development of the be-going-to form and the evolution of the English have-perfect. Analyzing these two forms in communion is motivated by the fact that they express conceptual patterns that are mirror images of each other and by the observation that they have developed, historically speaking, largely in an in-tandem constellation. The specific perspective taken in the paper explores several dimensions of the broader conceptual context of their auxiliation: (i) the “lexical preface” of grammaticalization processes, (ii) conceptual patterns associated with the notions that constitute the “meaning” of the respective forms, and (iii) the interaction with the development of other items in the respective domains. These aspects have received only scarce attention in grammaticalization research.