Abstract
Donohue, Cathryn. 2015. On variable auxiliary selection in Western Europe. Linguistic Research 32(2), 469-480. A number of Western European languages use two different auxiliary verbs when forming the perfect aspect with monadic verbs, roughly corresponding to have and be. While such a split is cross-linguistically rare, various studies have shown that there are clear similarities in the patterns of use and factors determining the auxiliary selection. In this paper I focus on the origins of this phenomenon and put forward the proposal that Vasconic may be the source of the dual auxiliary usage, following evidence of language spread through toponyms from Vasconic into the same areas as suggested by Venneman (2003). (The University of Hong Kong)
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