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A Look at Do Auxiliary in the Light of the Auxiliary Use of Need

Patrick Duffley

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Patrick Duffley

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The psychomechanical analysis of auxiliaries, based on the principle that auxiliary use involves an interception of the genesis of the verb's lexeme before the latter reaches the full meaning it has as a main verb, will be applied here both to the auxiliary use of do and to that of need in order to show that subduction does not produce the same type of result in both cases. With need, subduction clearly results in a mental position in the field of the potential: this is to be seen both in the dropping of the third person singular -s ending and in the restriction of the auxiliary use to non-assertive contexts. It will be argued however on the contrary that subducting do to obtain an auxiliary does not entail taking up position in the potential. Some of the consequences of this for the analysis of do auxiliary will be explored.

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Quatrième Colloque de psychomécanique du langage

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Quatrième Colloque de psychomécanique du langage

Hôte : Université Laval

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