A semantic approach to auxiliary selection with German verbs of motion. An empirical study

German manner-of-motion verbs can take both haben ‘have’ and sein ‘be’ as perfect auxiliaries. It has recently been proposed that, in these cases, auxiliary selection is determined by the feature [locomotion], where [+locomotion] triggers sein ‘be’ and [-locomotion] triggers haben ‘have’ (Randall 20...

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Main Author: Wojciech Lewandowski
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2018-12-01
Series:Catalan Journal of Linguistics
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/242