Overview

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.

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Author:   Raúl Aranovich (University of California, Davis)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   69
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9789027229816

ISBN 10:   9027229813
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   22 March 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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