The Charlemagne Sprachbund and the Periphrastic Perfects
Bridget Drinka
In the conclusion to his edited volume in EUROTYP series on adverbs, Johan van der Auwera (1998b: 824) introduces term Charlemagne Sprachbund refer area of Western Europe where languages adhere an array similar grammatical patterns and thus provide evidence for existence a European linguistic area, also called Standard Average (see Chapter 2 discussion). Van notes that “core” areas are French, German, Dutch, with Italian Polish closely linked – all located within or near ruled by Charlemagne. He demonstrates degree similarity exists across adverbial constructions assembling list features tend occur more frequently core less periphery, counting occurrence these features, grouping varieties numbers isopleth map (Figure 7.1) (cf. Haspelmath's map, presented as Figure 2.1 subsection 2.3.1). For reference, we can examine 7.2, which is actual holdings at time death 814.
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