Auxiliary selection and participial agreement

Abstract

Abstract The main goal of this chapter is to critically address from a comparative perspective some of the most important issues regarding the syntax of Romance auxiliary selection and past participle agreement, covering such areas as auxiliary splits licensed by verb class, person, tense, and mood; triple auxiliation; behaviour of different classes of reflexive; transitive-unaccusative splits in Romance participle agreement; stability and parameters in Romance participle. Specific topics dealt with include: features involved in Romance past participial agreement (target of past participial agreement; conditions on participial agreement; exceptional cases); variation in auxiliary selection; relevance of TAM for perfective auxiliation; a syntactic gradient for perfective auxiliation; mixed auxiliation systems:u, binary, or triple; perfective auxiliation at the syntax-semantics interface; some exceptional cases.

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