Basic English Grammar with Exercises

Verb Types In this structure, presumably the main verb will move to support the light verb and the right word order will be achi ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases b vP DP v' the cat v VP V 2 v DP V' V P e the dog V PP put off 1 t 2 t 1 Note that the structure that i ...

Verb Types very difficult problems for analysis under any set of assumptions. We will therefore leave this topic at this point a ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (142) vP DP v' he v VP e S V' that she is sad V thinks There are however, a number of problems facing t ...

Verb Types In this, the verb moves from light verb to light verb and the DP moves to the specifier of the first light verb to ge ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (149) a the announcement [that the prime minister had resigned] was broadcast on the radio b the announ ...

Aspectual Auxiliary Verbs 2.9 Summary To summarise this fairly long discussion of the structure of the VP, we can conclude that ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases 3.1 The auxiliary as a dummy One very interesting fact about aspectual auxiliaries is that each auxilia ...

Aspectual Auxiliary Verbs (158) a did you see that? b I didn’t see that c you DID see that! d you saw that, didn’t you? In these ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (161) a I consider [Tim tall] = I consider [that Tim is tall] b I deem [Ferdinand a fake] = I deem [tha ...

Aspectual Auxiliary Verbs event (the treaty being signed). It is the latter interpretation that is relevant here as this clearly ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases c vP v' v vP en v' v VP ing DP V' the door V close In all these cases, the main verb will move to suppo ...

Adverbs, PPs and Clausal modifiers 4 Adverbs, PPs and Clausal modifiers To complete this chapter, we will briefly mention modifi ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases requirement between the two is a reflex of X-bar theory itself: the head must be adjacent to its comple ...

Adverbs, PPs and Clausal modifiers (173) a the letter 1 might [VP eventually [VP t 1 arrive]] b Peter 2 might [vP suddenly [vP t ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases 4.2 PP modifiers The other main modifier in the VP is the PP. This differs from the AP modifier in its ...

Adverbs, PPs and Clausal modifiers We can call the phenomena noted in (178c) heavy DP shift (leaving undefined just what counts ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases (183) a the purpose of the witnesses claim that the defendant paid a lot of money was to attract attent ...

Conclusion (186) a vP DP v' Harry v' S v VP to fire the security guard e DP V' Freda V hire b vP DP v' Harry v VP e DP V' Freda ...

Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases the subject, which as we have maintained throughout this chapter starts off inside the VP, but moves to ...