Split auxiliary systems : a cross-linguistic perspective

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Split auxiliary systems : a cross-linguistic perspective

edited by Raúl Aranovich

(Typological studies in language, v. 69)

John Benjamins, c2007

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Includes selected papers from a workshop on Cross-linguistic variation in auxiliary selection, held at the University of California, Davis, May 31-June 1, 2003

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The alternation between the auxiliaries BE and HAVE, which this collection examines, is often discussed in connection with generative analyses of split intransitivity. But this book's purpose is to place the phenomenon in a broader context. Well-known facts in the Romance and Germanic language families are extended with data from lesser studied languages and dialects (Romanian, Paduan), and also with experimental and historical data. Moreover, the book goes beyond the usual language families in which the phenomenon has been studied, with the inclusion of two chapters on Chinese and Korean. The theoretical background of the contributors is also broad, ranging from current Generative approaches to Cognitive and Optimality-Theoretical frameworks. Readers interested in the structural, historical, developmental, or experimental aspects of auxiliary selection should profit from this book's comprehensive empirical coverage and from the plurality of contemporary linguistic analyses it contains.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Foreword
  • 2. Split auxiliary selection from a crosslinguistic perspective (by Aranovich, Raul)
  • 3. Transitivity parameters and auxiliary selection by L2 students of German (by Arnett, Carlee)
  • 4. An irrealis BE auxiliary in Romanian (by Avram, Larisa)
  • 5. Auxiliary selection and split intransitivity in Paduan: Variation, and lexical-aspectual constraints (by Cennamo, Michela)
  • 6. The development of the HAVE perfect: Mutual influences of Greek and Latin (by Drinka, Bridget)
  • 7. Agentivity versus auxiliary choice: Evidence from pronominal binding in German AcI-constructions (by Lee-Schoenfeld, Vera)
  • 8. Optimizing auxiliary selection in Romance (by Legendre, Geraldine)
  • 9. Auxiliary selection in Chinese (by Liu, Feng-hsi)
  • 10. Parameterized auxiliary selection: a fine-grained interaction of features and linking rules (by Randall, Janet H.)
  • 11. Particle selection in Korean auxiliary formation (by Rhee, Seongha)
  • 12. Language use and auxiliary selection in the perfect (by Smith, K. Aaron)
  • 13. Language index
  • 14. Name index
  • 15. Subject index

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