Grammaticalization of auxiliaries and parametric changes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriela Alboiu (York University), Virginia Hill (0000-0001-5850-1666, University of New Brunswick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Linguistic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/tlr-2017-0007 |
| OpenAlex | W2620657106 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
This paper looks at constructions with non-clitic auxiliaries in Old Romanian, which precede the generalized option for clitic auxiliaries in the same language. We argue that non-clitic auxiliaries belong to a grammar with genuine SVO, scrambling to Spec, AspP, and subject-auxiliary inversion (SAI as AUX-to Fin). The generalization of the clitic auxiliary entails the loss of these properties, while triggering a parametric shift in word order to VSO, discourse oriented fronting of constituents (to CP only instead of Spec, AspP), and Long Head Movement (LHM through V-to-Focus) instead of SAI. Implicitly, this analysis supports the distinction between A (AUX-to-Fin) and A-bar (V-to-Focus) head movement of verbal elements, and further refines it by showing that these two types of movement do not concern two specific types of heads (i.e., operator for the C domain versus non-operator for the T domain; Roberts 2001, Head movement. In Mark Baltin & Chris Collins (eds.)
Clitic · Grammar · Linguistics · Minimalist program · Word order · Computer Science · Linguistics and language evolution · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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The Evolution of French Syntax
The Dynamics of Focus Structure
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Relabeling Heads
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |