Auxiliary selection
Mateu Fontanals, Jaume (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Imprint:	De Gruyter, 2016
Abstract:	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).
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FFI2014-56968-C4-1-P Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2014-SGR-1013
Rights:	Tots els drets reservats.
Language:	Anglès
Series:	Manuals of Romance Linguistics ; 10
Document:	Capítol de llibre
Subject:	Auxiliary selection ; Auxiliary splits ; Unaccusativity ; Argument structure ; Lexicon-syntax interface
Published in:	Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance, 2016, p. 295-326, ISBN 9783110311860

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