Split auxiliary systems : a cross-linguistic perspective / edited by Raul Aranovich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aranovich, Raúl.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 69.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 69

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Auxiliaries--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Language and languages--Variation--Congresses.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

vii, 277 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Split Auxiliary Systems

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Foreword

Split auxiliary selection from a cross-linguistic perspective

1. Auxiliary selection and split intransitivity

2. The Unaccusative Hypothesis and split auxiliary selection

3. Semantics of auxiliary selection

4. Other unaccusative tests

5. Mismatches among tests

6. Verbs of variable behavior

7. Mismatches across languages or dialects

8. Diachronic and sociolinguistic factors in auxiliary selection

9. Conclusions and contents of the volume

References

Transitivity parameters and auxiliary selection by L2 students of German

1. Literature review

2. Methodology

3. Accuracy of production

4. Influence of parameters

4.1. Number of participants

4.2. Telicity

4.3. Punctuality

5. Decision making

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Appendix A. Questionnaire

Part A

Student Questionnaire

Part B

An irrealis BE auxiliary in Romanian*

1. Introduction

2. Fi and unaccusatives

2.1. Morphologic status

2.2. Tense morphology

2.3. Past participle agreement

2.4. Past participle and adjective coordination

3. The auxiliary fi

3.1. The auxiliary status

3.2. The distribution of the auxiliary fi

3.3. The inflection of the auxiliary fi

3.4. A syntactic structure for the auxiliary fi

3.5. Fi in other checking 9configurations3

4. Conclusions

Auxiliary selection and split intransitivity in Paduan

2. Split intransitivity: A multidimensional, gradient view

3. Split intransitivity in Paduan

3.1. Loci of invariance and variation

4. Variation in the encoding of split intransitivity in Paduan and the auxiliary selection hierarchy

5. Conclusion

The development of the HAVE perfect.

1. Introduction

3. Evidence from Classical Greek

4. The Influence of Greek on Classical Latin

5. Later developments in Greek: Christianity and Anti-Sophism in the Koiné

6. The role of Latin influence on Greek

7. The role of Christianity in Latin

8. Conclusion

Primary sources

Agentivity versus auxiliary choice

2. German auxiliary selection and unaccusativity

3. Pronominal binding in AcIs

3.1. Accusativus cum Infintivo (AcI)

3.2. Previous accounts of AcI-embedded pronominals

4. Pronominal binding and agentivity

4.1. Reconsidering the facts

4.2. A structural analysis

5. Agentivity versus auxiliary choice

6. Conclusion

Appendix

Optimizing auxiliary selection in Romance*

2. The Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy

3. Optimizing auxiliary selection

3.1. Event features

3.2. Harmonic alignment

3.3. Formulating a *A Power Hierarchy

3.4. Establishing the language-particular ranking of *E

3.5. Verifying predictions in French and Italian

4. General predictions of the OT analysis

5. Diachronic predictions

6. Indeterminacy in auxiliary selection

7. The larger debate: Unaccusativity

Auxiliary selection in Chinese*

2. Locative inversion

2.1. Intransitive verbs

2.2. Transitive verbs

3. Auxiliary selection

3.1. Verbs of change

3.2. States

3.3. Processes

4. Semantic determinants

4.1. Hu (1995) and Yang and Pan (2001)

4.2. Three factors

5. Syntactic approaches

5.1. Huang (1990)

5.2. Yu (1995)

5.3. Pan (1996)

5.4. Summary

Parameterized auxiliary selection

0. Introduction

1. A brief review: Is auxiliary verb selection a reliable verb class diagnostic?.

2. The Auxiliary Selection Hierarchy: An approach to unaccusative mismatches

2.1. The theory: Two semantic dimensions in a hierarchy of verb types

2.2. Experimental evidence: Keller &amp

Sorace (2003)

2.3. Questions and issues

3. Parameterized Linking: An alternative account

3.1. Linking rules, compositional linking, and language-internal variation

3.2. Cross-linguistic variation: Parameterized linking rule systems

3.3. Where linking rules do not decide: Indeterminate linking, default linking, multiple CSs and competing rules

3.4. Parameterized linking rules and inconsistent diagnostics

4. Support for Parameterized Linking: Experimental data

5. Conclusions

Particle selection in Korean auxiliary formation*

2. Preliminary issues

2.1. Grammaticalizing forms

2.2. Serial verb constructions

2.3. Particles

3. Auxiliaries from the existence verb issta

3.1. The past path

3.2. Diachronic development

3.3. The progressive path

3.4. The future path

4. Conclusion

Abbreviations

Language use and auxiliary selection in the perfect*

2. A usage-based model of language storage and processing

3. The role of frequency in the replacement of be in English

4. Auxiliary selection in German

4.1. The stability of auxiliary selection in German

4.2. The effects of frequency on the stability of auxiliary selection in German

Language index

Name index

Subject index

The series Typological Studies in Language.

Notes:

Includes selected papers from a workshop on Cross-linguistic variation in auxiliary selection, held at the University of California, Davis, May 31-June 1, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612154683

9781282154681

1282154680

9789027292568

9027292566

OCLC:

237770687