Chapter 14
The Swedish perfect and periphrasis
This paper investigates the apparent
near-optionality of the perfect auxiliary ha
(‘have’) in Swedish. Restrictions on the near-optionality of
ha-omission are typically recognized in the
previous literature as lexical or structural. The paper scrutinizes
the viability of these restrictions by means of corpus data. Most of
these restrictions are shown not to hold. Instead, the paper defends
the view that the optionality of the perfect auxiliary
ha in Swedish is linked to whether the clause
it occurs in requires a finite feature or not, and whether
ha is the only element that can supply a value
for this feature. The phenomenon of ha-omission is
accounted for in the syntactic frame work LFG. It is shown that
ha can only be omitted if another element in
the clause can provide a value for the finite feature.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Lexical restrictions
- 3.Structural restrictions
- 3.1Raising constructions
- 3.2ECM
- 4.The corpus study
- 4.1Material
- 4.2Method
- 4.3Results and discussion
- 4.3.1Lexical restrictions
- 4.3.2Structural restrictions
- 5.A lexical approach to ha-omission
- 6.Conclusion
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Abbreviations
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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