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In:Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015
Edited by Michela Cennamo and Claudia Fabrizio
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 348] 2019
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Chapter 17
Parameters in the development of Romance perfective auxiliary selection

Published online: 10 September 2019
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Abstract
This paper undertakes a synchronic comparison of auxiliary selection across a number of different Romance varieties that show how minimal differences among otherwise highly homogenous ‘systems’ can be used to investigate microvariation along the diachronic axis in order to better understand what precisely may vary and how such variation may be implicationally structured in relation to the predictions of parametric hierarchies. Modelling changes in different auxiliary patterns in terms of parametric hierarchies, I argue that the structural organization of such hierarchies and the predictions they make about markedness relations between different linguistic choices can be profitably used, especially when earlier stages of languages are not documented, to understand the direction of change, what precisely may change, and how such diachronic variation may be implicationally structured.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Romance auxiliary selection: Mesoparametric variation
  • 3.Microparametric variation: Person-driven systems
    • 3.1Modal and temporal distinctions
    • 3.2Number restrictions
    • 3.3Saliency of individual discourse participants
    • 3.4Summary
  • 4.Microparameric variation: Argument-driven systems
    • 4.1Modal and temporal restrictions
    • 4.2Person and number restrictions
    • 4.3Restrictions on stative subjects (SO)
    • 4.4Summary
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • References
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