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On the origin of auxiliary do

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Andrew Garrett
Andrew Garrett
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University of California, Berkeley
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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

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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , November 1998 , pp. 283 - 330
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