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Abstract: This squib carries out an initial contrastive analysis of English and Russian phase (a.k.a. aspectual) verbs. Following Fukuda's (2008; 2009) syntactic account of English, I assume English ...

WE have already taken up how inverted sentences depart from the normal sentence-verb-complement pattern (S-V/C) to put the ...

IN last week's column, we looked at how inverted sentences allow us to abandon the normal subject-verb-complement (S-V/C) sequence so we can deliver the verb or its complement wherever we feel it can ...

The first four classes are based on Vendler and are sometimes called the Vendler event classes. The last class, semelfactive, was discovered later. Seealso Brinton, The Development of English ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Italian sentences which appear to lack propositional arguments of verbs are shown to be base-generated without these verb complements. This ...