Basic English Grammar with Exercises

Verb Types assumption of a position to which the verb moves. If we assume that this is indeed a light verb, we can account for t ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases modified by the purpose clause. The ungrammaticality of this sentence with this interpretation demonstr ...

Verb Types (73) vP DP v' Pete v VP e DP V' the letter V posted Again, if this were the final analysis of the construction we wou ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (76) VP DP V' Harry V DP hit Bill But then the -roles are assigned to different structural positions a ...

Verb Types (78) vP DP v' Pete v VP e DP V' the letter V posted If the light verb ceased to be there, both the agent -role and t ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (81) vP v' v VP post 1 v DP V' ed the letter V t 1 From this perspective, then, the analysis of the pas ...

Verb Types and that these are passed up to it by a process similar to projection – something which has been called extended proj ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (86) a Sally saw a ghost b Harry heard the news c Fred fears the dark The obvious question that needs t ...

Verb Types (90) e = e 1 : e 1 = ‘Fred fears the dark’ If there is an isomorphism between event structure and VP structure and (9 ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (93) vP DP v' Ursula v vP e DP v' the waiter v VP e V' V upset The event structure of these verbs seems ...

Verb Types b vP DP v' Ursula v vP v 2 e DP v' upset 1 v the waiter v VP e t 2 V' V t 1 The first step, represented in (95a), inv ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases be assigned is the theme, if there is one. As this can be assigned to the specifier of the thematic ver ...

Verb Types (102) vP DP v' Sam v VP smiled 1 v DP V' e a smile V t 1 From this perspective, the only difference between a cognate ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (107) a In de zomer wordt er hier vaak gezwommen. In the summer is it here frequently swum ‘In the summ ...

Verb Types (111) a Porter put the book on the shelf b Prudence placed the penguin on the podium c Steve stored the potatoes in t ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (115) a Gary gave a present to Petunia b Sonia sent the letter to Larry c Knut knitted a sweater for Su ...

Verb Types which the main verb moves. The only possibility is that there is another specifier position between the two: (118) vP ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (121) vP DP v' Gary 1 v vP v 3 v DP v' gave 2 v e Pete v VP e t 3 DP V' a present V DP t 2 t 1 The verb ...

Verb Types (125) a he lived right near a mountain b *he took right off his hat (126) a he lived near the forest and next to a ri ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases In all these cases of compounding, the rightmost element provides the compound with its syntactic and s ...