Sex hjälpverb och deras historia. En grammatikaliseringsstudie : Recension av Mara Bylin: Aspektuella hjälpverb i svenskan. (Acta universitatis Stockholmensis. Stockholm Studies in Scandinavian Philology. New Series 58.) Stockholm: Stockholms universitet (2013).
In her dissertation Aspektuella hjälpverb i svenskan, Maria Bylin investigates the evolution of six aspectual auxiliaries in Swedish (bruka ‘use to’, tendera ‘tend to’, börja ‘begin’, fortsätta ‘continue’, sluta ‘stop’ and hota ‘threaten’). The study is conducted within the framework of grammaticalization, and Bylin’s primary method is to apply so-called auxiliary tests on a historical material co