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Publication details [#29837]

Aissen, Judith L. 1994. Tzotzil auxiliaries. Linguistics 32 (4/5) : 657–690.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adjunct | auxiliary | function | syntactic construction

Language as a subject

Tzotzil

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper provides a syntactic analysis of the Tzotzil auxiliary construction that reconciles the headlike with the more adjunctlike properties of the auxiliaries by treating them as functional verbs extending a lexical VP in the sense of Grimshaw (1991).