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- Title
On the origin of auxiliary do.
- Authors
Garrett, Andrew
- Abstract
Prevailing theories link the English periphrastic auxiliary verb do historically with Old and Middle English causative do. I argue that these and other accounts are inconsistent with modern dialect evidence and an analysis of the historical record suggested by that evidence. The primary source of periphrastic do was a habitual aspect marker which itself arose from the reinterpretation of bare object nominalizations as infinitive verbs.1
- Publication
English Language & Linguistics, 1998, Vol 2, Issue 2, p283
- ISSN
1360-6743
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1360674300000897