on the syntax and semantics of tener and haber

t his paper presents a novel approach on the syntax and se- mantics of the two s panish auxiliary verbs haber and tener and their distributional properties. i t is argued that these verbs share key syntac- tic properties, but denote two different types of semantic relations. While tener denotes a property ascribed to the subject, haber only introduces the temporal reference of a sentence. t his proposal on the semantics of tener and haber is then inserted in a broader proposal on auxiliary verbs, copulae and their distribution. i t is shown that the current proposal can correctly account the distribution of tener and haber, and be seamlessly

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