TY - JOUR AU - Gómez Rubio, Joshua PY - 2019/11/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - ¿Por qué las cópulas son auxiliares? JF - Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics JA - Borealis VL - 8 IS - 2 SE - Articles on the monographic topic DO - 10.7557/1.8.2.4956 UR - https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/4956 SP - 199-224 AB - <p>Abstract. Copulas work as auxiliary verbs in Spanish and in other languages. In this article, we will argue in favor of this property being due to the absence of lexical content of the copula verb be<sub>1</sub> (Sp. ‘ser’), on the one hand, and the aspectual content of the verb be<sub>2</sub> (Sp. ‘estar’), on the other hand.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -