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TOWARD A MODULAR THEORY OF AUXILIARY SELECTION
Author(s) -
Kayne Richard S.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9582.1993.tb00837.x
Subject(s) - complement (music) , alternation (linguistics) , selection (genetic algorithm) , modular design , linguistics , romance languages , computer science , mathematics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , programming language , biology , biochemistry , complementation , gene , phenotype
. There is no auxiliary selection rule. ‘Have’ is identical to ‘be’ but for the incorporation of an abstract preposition (cf. Freeze (1992). The alternation is to be understood largely in terms of properties of the participial clause complement‐whether it is full or reduced, whether AGR‐S raises or not, whether Spec, AGR‐O is moved through or not, how many arguments the V has that need to be Case‐licensed. Primarily Romance languages are considered, including a number not traditionally taken into consideration.