Synopses & Reviews
Theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the verb in English by some of the top scholars in the field.
Review
"This is a book for those interested in the structure and history of verbs in English. It is a varied presentation of currenttheoretical and descriptive work in English grammar and provides some valuable insights." Eduardo D. Faingold, Canadian Journal of Linguistics
Table of Contents
List of contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction: theoretical and descriptive approaches to the study of the verb in English Bas Aarts and Charles F. Meyer; Part I. Theoretical Approaches to the Study of the English Verb: 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; Part II. Descriptive Approaches to the Study of the English Verb: 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 collocations Stig Johanssen; 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 Stenstrm; Index of names; Subject index.