On triple auxiliation in Romance *.(analysis of romance laguages)

From: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the languagesciences | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract

Romance languages divide into three classes, as far as perfective auxiliation is concerned: as well as languages showing a binary contrast (e.g., French) and languages showing no contrast (e.g., Spanish), several varieties exist in which auxiliation displays three-way choices. Previous research on Romance auxiliaries has failed to recognize this empirical fact due to its focus on auxiliaries as morpho-lexical items, rather than on auxiliation as a syntactic phenomenon. Building on the approach to Romance auxiliation of Perlmutter (1989), this article proposes an ...

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