Auxiliary selection across Catalan dialects: an overview

• Anna Pineda ^[1] ; Sebastià Salvà i Puig ; Elga Cremades Cortiella
  1. [1] Universitat de Barcelona

     Universitat de Barcelona

     Barcelona, España

     
• Localización: Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, ISSN-e 1893-3211, Vol. 13, Nº. 2, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Topic of the monographic section: argument structure), págs. 127-182
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  • This article presents a comprehensive description of auxiliary selection in Catalan. Specifically, after explaining how the phenomenon worked in Old Catalan, we show what are the factors (such as the event/argument structure or the grammatical person, among others) that determine the use of be and have in those Catalan varieties that, although with some innovations, retain this distinction: (i) Algherese Catalan, (ii) Northern Catalan and some varieties of Central Catalan, (iii) Ribagorçan Catalan, and (iv) Balearic Catalan. Likewise, we show a series of theoretical considerations that we believe relevant for the analysis of the patterns of variation found in Catalan and, by extension, in Romance.