Situations and Syntactic Structures : Rethinking Auxiliaries and Order in English /

A new theory of the syntax-semantics interface that relies on hierarchical orderings in language, with the English auxiliary system as its empirical ground. Research in syntax has found that there is a hierarchical ordering of projections within the verb phrase across languages (although researchers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramchand, Gillian, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wortstellung
Hilfsverb
Englisch
English language > Syntax.
English language > Auxiliary verbs.
English language > Aspect.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to Events and Situations in Grammar
  • The Progressive in English
  • The Passive and its Participle
  • The Participle, the Perfect and the Spatio temporal Domain
  • Modals and the Spatiotemporal Domain
  • Modals and Generalized Anchoring
  • Epilogue.

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