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All the Romance languages have at some point in their history exhibited a split perfect auxiliary system, with transitive verbs generally taking a ‘have’ verb (normally descended from Latin habere) and some intransitives taking a ‘be’ verb (normally related to Latin esse). For convenience the letters ‘A’ and ‘E’ are used here to denote ‘have’ and ‘be’ verbs respectively.
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Mackenzie, I. (2006). Perfect Auxiliary Selection. In: Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages. Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627550_5
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