Research Catalog

Title

The verb in contemporary English : theory and description / [edited by] Bas Aarts and Charles F. Meyer.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Aarts, Bas, 1961-
• Meyer, Charles F.

Description

x, 313 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

English language > Verb

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: theoretical and descriptive approaches to the study of the verb in English / Bas Aarts and Charles F. Meyer -- 2. Grammatical relations in English / Charles F. Meyer -- 3. Competence without Comp? / Richard Hudson -- 4. On the semantics of the object / I. M. Schlesinger -- 5. Secondary predicates in English / Bas Aarts -- 6. The English perfect as a secondary past tense / Rodney Huddleston -- 7. 'How does this sentence interpret?' The semantics of English mediopassives / Andrew Rosta -- 8. The expression of Root and Epistemic Possibility in English / Jennifer Coates -- 9. Find and want: a corpus-based case study in verb complementation / Jan Aarts and Flor Aarts -- 10. Indeterminacy between Noun Phrases and Adjective Phrases as complements of the English verb / Geoffrey Leech and Lu Li -- 11. Having a look at the expanded predicate / John Algeo -- 12. 'This scheme is badly needed': some aspects of verb-adverb combinations / Stig Johansson.
• 13. That and zero complementisers in Late Modern English: exploring ARCHER from 1650-1990 / Edward Finegan and Douglas Biber -- 14. Changing patterns of complementation, and concomitant grammaticalisation, of the verb help in present-day British English / Christian Mair -- 15. Verbs in public and private speaking / Jan Svartvik and Olof Ekedahl -- 16. Some remarks on comment clauses / Anna-Brita Stenstrom.

ISBN

0521460395

LCCN

94005277

OCLC

• 187449759
• ocn187449759

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Columbia University Libraries