Towards a Unified Representation of English and Norwegian Auxiliaries

Abstract

Superficially, the auxiliary systems of Norwegian and English seem to be rather different, but in this paper I will attempt to show that these cross-linguistic differences are not due to the auxiliaries per se, but rather due to intervening factors which affect the systems for representing the auxiliaries. In other words, Norwegian and English auxiliaries appear to be highly similar once these other factors have been accounted for.