Auxiliary selection
Auxiliary selection is a complex interface phenomenon that has beenclaimed to be sensitive to factors ranging from (in)transitivity, argument structure(cf. unaccusativity vs. unergativity), lexical semantics, andAktionsartto tense,modality, clausal aspect, and subject person. Such a variety of facto...
| Autor: | |
|---|---|
| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:284506 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/284506 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Auxiliary selection Auxiliary splits Unaccusativity Argument structure Lexicon-syntax interface |
| Sumario: | Auxiliary selection is a complex interface phenomenon that has beenclaimed to be sensitive to factors ranging from (in)transitivity, argument structure(cf. unaccusativity vs. unergativity), lexical semantics, andAktionsartto tense,modality, clausal aspect, and subject person. Such a variety of factors has led differentauthors to approach this topic from a syntactic perspective or from a semantic one.There are also a few authors who have argued for a unified analysis of the morpho-syntactic and the semantic factors involved in auxiliary selection. Indeed, thereappears to be an impressive range of variation attested in Romance languages interms of how the selection works and what it is sensitive to. In this chapter, I givea survey of the different auxiliary splits attested in Romance languages (section 1)and then provide an overview of some relevant syntactic and semantic approaches(section 2). The conclusion is that the two theoretical perspectives are not to beregarded as incompatible. Although I concentrate on the synchronic aspects ofauxiliary selection in Romance, some diachronic issues are also taken into account(section 3). Finally, this chapter contains some concluding remarks (section 4). |
|---|