Split Auxiliary Systems: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Raúl Aranovich
[Typological Studies in Language, 69] 2007. vii, 277 pp.
Raúl Aranovich
List of John Benjamins publications for which Raúl Aranovich plays a role.
Title
Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2007 Split auxiliary selection from a crosslinguistic perspective Split Auxiliary Systems: A cross-linguistic perspective, Aranovich, Raúl (ed.), pp. 1–23 | Article
2007 Negative Polarity and Scalar Semantics in Spanish Lingvisticæ Investigationes 30:2, pp. 181–216 | Article
Licensing of NPIs in Spanish varies depending on the semantics of the trigger. Nonveridical operators license n-words, and antiveridical operators license ni-minimizers. I argue that the NPIs that can occur in antiveridical contexts have a scalar presupposition, but those that are licensed in… read more
2006 A Polarity-Sensitive Disjunction: Spanish ni … ni New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics, Nishida, Chiyo and Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Article
This paper argues that in Spanish negative phrases of the form “ni XP ni XP” 'neither XP nor XP', ni is a polarity-sensitive disjunction. Following the widening/strengthening account of polarity sensitivity in Heim (1984), Kadmon and Landman (1993), and others, it is argued that ni-XPs have a… read more
2003 The semantics of auxiliary selection in Old Spanish Studies in Language 27:1, pp. 1–37 | Article
Old Spanish had a split auxiliary system in the perfect tense, reminiscent of what is found in Modern French and Modern Italian. In this paper, I trace the progress of the displacement of ser ‘be’ by haber ‘have’ with intransitive and reflexive verbs in the history of Spanish. The data support the… read more
2002 Impersonal constructions, control and second-order predication Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2000: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2000, Utrecht, 30 November–2 December, Beyssade, Claire, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Frank Drijkoningen and Paola Monachesi (eds.), pp. 41–55 | Article