TY - JOUR AU - Baldi, Benedetta AU - Savoia, Leonardo M. PY - 2019/08/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Auxiliary Selection in Italian Dialects: Person Split, OCls and "Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico" JF - Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali JA - bsfm-qulso VL - 5 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.13128/QULSO-2421-7220-25962 UR - https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/1904 SP - 55-105 AB - <p class="p1">This article addresses a classical phenomenon of Differential Subject Marking, i.e. the selection of auxiliary in the perfect in relation to person in some Central and Southern Italian dialects. In these systems <em>be/ have</em> as auxiliaries alternate according to person and, partially, to active, non-active or passive voice. The attested patterns vary but a tendency emerges whereby 3<sup>rd</sup> person requires <em>have</em>, while 1<sup>st</sup>/2<sup>nd</sup> person require <em>be</em>. In the passive <em>be</em> is associated to all persons. We aim at describing the main types of the auxiliary patterns and proposing an analysis of the morpho-syntactic mechanism underlying the distribution of <em>be</em> and <em>have</em>. We connect the <em>be/have</em> alternation with the syntactic representation of the event and its relation with the distinction between deictic import of 1<sup>st</sup>/2<sup>nd</sup> person and the argumental reading of 3<sup>rd</sup> person elements. A core point of our discussion is the sandhi process of Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico in auxiliary contexts that the recent literature considers a cue of the syntactic difference between passive and active voice. Finally, a comparison with the Piedmontese systems selecting <em>be</em> as auxiliary regardless of the verbal voice is proposed as far as they can provide further elements for deepening the syntactic nature of auxiliary selection.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></p> ER -