The Crosslinguistic Defaultness of BE
This paper presents a formalization of view that auxiliary verbs such as be are in some sense default verbs. On the basis of languages in which auxiliaries arise only in certain combinations of inflectional categories (Latin, Kinande), it is argued that auxiliary be is not present in the syntax, but...
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University of Arizona Linguistics Circle
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/253416 |