The logic of the English auxiliary system
Yusuke Kubota, Bob Levine
October 2021 

This paper proposes an analysis of the English auxiliary system in Hybrid TLG. Our proposal differs from related approaches in lexicalist syntactic theories (such as HPSG and earlier variants of categorial grammar) in taking auxiliaries to be higher-order operators that syntactically (and not just semantically) scope over the local clauses in which they appear. We formulate an analysis of the familiar NI(C)E properties of auxiliaries in this approach. An advantage for the higher-order analysis comes from the fact that it offers a straightforward solution for a long-standing puzzle for earlier lexicalist approaches pertaining to the distribution of the unstressed "do".

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Reference:	lingbuzz/006040 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	To appear in the Proceedings of LACL 2021
keywords:	auxiliary verb, type-logical grammar, "do" insertion, higher-order auxiliary, categorial grammar, nice properties, semantics, morphology, syntax
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