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Auxiliary selection and the semantics of unaccusativity

open access: yesLingua, 2004
Our focus in this paper is on those Romance and Germanic languages which exhibit alternation of 'have' and 'be' ('auxiliary selection') according to verb class. In these closely related languages 'have' occurs with transitives and unergatives, while 'be' occurs to varying degrees with unaccusatives. Crucially, the distribution of perfective 'have' and '
Delia Bentley, Thórhallur Eythorsson
exaly   +3 more sources

Auxiliary Selection in Italo-Romance

open access: yes, 2023
This book proposes a new solution to the long-standing puzzle of auxiliary selection in Romance languages, in particular Italian. The following questions are addressed: why the perfect auxiliary appears in the two forms be and have within a single language, what drives this distribution, and how cross-linguistic data can be accounted for.
Irene Amato
core   +4 more sources

On the typology of auxiliary selection

Lingua, 2007
Abstract This paper extends a previous claim that auxiliary selection in the present perfect of monadic verbs reflects a pattern grounded in lexico-aspectual properties of individual verbs though mediated through their syntax. A novel argument in support of this conclusion is made, based on the cross-contextual typology of auxiliaries, showing that ...
Geraldine Legendre
exaly   +2 more sources

Auxiliary Selection Revisited

2015
A central debate about the description of auxiliary selection concerns the regularity of auxiliary selection from a typological perspective. Thus, studies of auxiliary selection have both stressed the fact that certain recurrent parameters are highly relevant to the description of auxiliary selection, whereas other studies demonstrate significant ...
exaly   +2 more sources

Auxiliary Selection

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2007
Abstract Few syntactic phenomena are relevant to as many areas of linguistic theory as auxiliary selection – the alternation between auxiliaries in periphrastic constructions. Standing at the intersection between syntax, lexical and clausal semantics and morphology, it has been the subject of intense research since the late 1970s and ...
openaire   +1 more source

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