'Have' and the link between perfects and existentials in Old Catalan
This papers focuses on an aspect of the auxiliary alternation in the perfect in Old Catalan that sets this language apart from other members of the Romance family. In Old Catalan, most of the first occurrences of unaccusative verbs with haver ('have') instead of ésser ('be') show...
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University of Konstanz
2019
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