Constructions that depend on auxiliaries

Jovanovska, Sashka and Talevska, Marija and Tashkoska, Marija (2024) Constructions that depend on auxiliaries. Academy Global Conferences & Journals. pp. 36-45. ISSN 978-625-6283-02-2

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Abstract

As noted by Sag and Wasow (1999, p. 295) the English auxiliary system involves a relatively
small number of elements interacting with each other in complicated and intriguing ways. This
has been one of the main reasons for making the system the most extensively analyzed empirical
domains in the literature on generative syntax. This paper shows that the precise lexicon
information on auxiliary verbs and constructional constraints sensitive to the presence of an
auxiliary verb can play important roles in predicting various related properties. In particular,
facts such as linear ordering restrictions among auxiliaries can directly follow from the precise
subcategorization information on the auxiliary verbs. It also shows that constructional
constraints can explicitly express generalizations among auxiliary-sensitive phenomena such as
negation, inversion, contraction, and ellipsis, which we would otherwise miss.
Key words: English auxiliary, negation, inversion, contraction, VP ellipsis,

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Saska Jovanovska
Date Deposited:	21 May 2024 07:16
Last Modified:	21 May 2024 07:16
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/34121

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