Auxiliary selection
- Autores: Jaume Mateu Fontanals
- Localización: Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance / coord. por Susann Fischer, Christoph Gabriel, 2016, ISBN 9783110311785, págs. 295-326
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Auxiliary selection is a complex interface phenomenon that has been claimed to be sensitive to factors ranging from (in)transitivity, argument structure (cf. unaccusativity vs. unergativity), lexical semantics, and Aktionsart to tense, modality, clausal aspect, and subject person. Such a variety of factors has led di ff erent authors to approach this topic from a syntactic perspective or from a semantic one. There are also a few authors who have argued for a uni fi ed analysis of the morphosyntactic and the semantic factors involved in auxiliary selection. Indeed, there appears to be an impressive range of variation attested in Romance languages in terms of how the selection works and what it is sensitive to. In this chapter, I give a survey of the di ff erent 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 be regarded as incompatible. Although I concentrate on the synchronic aspects of auxiliary selection in Romance, some diachronic issues are also taken into account (section 3). Finally, this chapter contains some concluding remarks (section 4).
