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BE-ing Default: The Morphosyntax of Auxiliaries

by

Bronwyn Alma Moore Bjorkman

B.A., Linguistics and Philosophy, McGill University, 2006 Submitted to the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

Doctor of Philosophy

at the

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

September 2011

c Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011. All rights reserved. Author ............................................................................

Department of Linguistics and Philosophy

September 2, 2011

Certified by........................................................................

Sabine Iatridou

Professor of Linguistics

Thesis Supervisor

Accepted by .......................................................................

David Pesetsky

Professor of Linguistics

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BE-ing Default: The Morphosyntax of Auxiliaries

by

Bronwyn Alma Moore Bjorkman

Abstract

arbitrary be be structural isolate stranded be downward markedness havebe be do

In memory of my Nana,

Gertrude Theora "Sully" Moore

Whence auxiliaries?

If they are stranded features,

many things follow.

Acknowledgements

not

Contents1 Overview17

2 The Morphosyntax of Auxiliarybe21

be

3 Auxiliaryhave: auxiliary selection and related issues 125

havebe 0 0 have have be have have

4do-support179

do do Do do do

5 Verbal inflection and the left periphery: Counterfactuals 207

0 0

6 Conclusion237

List of Abbreviations

absabsolutive accaccusative adeadessive aoraorist clclass marker (Bantu agreement) condconditional contcontinuative datdative defdefinite detdeterminer ergergative ffeminine futfuture gengenitive habhabitual impimperative impfimperfective incpinceptive infinfinitive mmasculine modmodal negnegative marker nomnominative ptcpparticiple passpassive pastpast perfperfect pfvperfective plplural prespresent progprogressive sgsingular

Chapter 1Overview

be havedo be be 1 0

0 0 be 0

selects02

1De Interpretatione

2 0

0 0 be 0 be 0 selectional approach be selected for be failures be be be overflow pattern be be havedo Do have havebe have be have be originates divest do be do do do v0 0

Chapter 2The Morphosyntax of Auxiliarybe

2.1 Two patterns of auxiliary use

overflow pattern combinations

1sg.perf

1sg.pass

perf.passsum1sg.pres additive pattern always was reading was read was being read pastprogressivepassive

Additive Pattern:

be be bebe

Overflow Pattern:

?be ?be be repair be v additiveoverflow

2.1.1 Additive auxiliary patterns

1 be be behave2 English progressive uniformly requires be:Finite: were

Non-finite: be

Perfect: been

English passive uniformly requires be:Finite: was

Non-finite: be

Perfect: been

English progressive passive occurs with two be"s:

1 benot

2 have have

be have have be have have post-syntactic

Finite: was being

Non-finite: be being

Perfect: been being

3

Basque present perfective:ergpfvdau.auxpres

Basque past imperfectiveimpfsa-n.auxpast

olla ovatpresptcp

Present Perfect

olivatpastptcpPast Perfect

3 be izan have edunezan

any have

2.1.2 Overflow auxiliary patterns

individual combinations be 4

1plpast15

1plpast2

1plpast3

1plpast3

4 5

1plimpf

1plprog

1plincp

1plcont

both

á-bya

1plpast3benému

lnk1plprog

Recent Past + Progressive

a-bya

1plpast3belnk1plimpf

inflectional final suffixfinal vowel 6 plnomaccconsumpserunt7 plpfvPerfect nomconsumitur prespassPassive nomconsumptumpassptcpest be3sgpresPerfect + Passive pastpfv3sgm 6 7 mimpf past3sgmmimpf be

2.2 Accounting for the overflow pattern: "default" auxiliaries

be not syntactic hybrid descriptive be selection locality

2.2.1 Inadequacy of additive accounts

be 0 be 0 be 0 overflow 8 be

8 do be

be do do do do not be do

Syntactic Structures

9 10 11 be be 9 10 be be be 11 0 be 0 be 0 0 havebe be be be have be eating eaten identified unifies selected for select be combination be be single be combination 0 0 0 0 local be12 12 indirect 0 0 0 be morphological selected repair

2.2.2 Morphology-driven selection: further issues

deverbal explanationjustification be input lexi- calist output post-syntacticinterpretive

0 0 0 0does

0 0 0 values

0not 0

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