The grammar of the english verb phrase part pdf

... actualization focus on the past: the speaker focuses on some aspect of the past actualization of the situation (rather than on the structure of the world at t 0 , as is the case when the present perfect ... There is also actualization focus on the past when the speaker just wants to inform the hearer of the fact that the situation actualized, without represen...

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... Declerck in cooperation with Susan Reed and Bert Cappelle. p. cm. − (The grammar of the English verb phrase ; v. 1) (Topics in English linguistics ; 60.1) Includes bibliographical references and ... 171 Chapter 4. The absolute past tense 193 Chapter 5. The absolute use of the present perfect 209 Chapter 6. The present perfect vs the preterite in clauses without temp...

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... verb forms 22 A. Tense 22 1.14 Introduction 22 1.15 The formation of the present tense 23 1.16 The formation of the past tense 23 1.17 The formation of the other tenses 24 1.18 The meanings of ... dealing with the English verb phrase. (The definitions of the terms and concepts used in the book are brought together in an extensive glossary at the end of...

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... speak of a noun phrase (NP) (e. g. all those beautiful houses built in the sixties). If the head is a verb, the phrase is a verb phrase (VP). In the following sentence the VP is in italics and the verb ... whether a clause refers to the performance of an action, the happening of an event, the development of a process or the existence of a state, we can...

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... consisting of the initial letters of the terms negation, inversion, code and emphasis. The reference is to the four cases in which the English VP requires an auxiliary. If there is no auxiliary, the ... a verb form’. A verb form consists either of a verb (in the form of a participle or infinitive) plus one or more auxiliaries (e. g. will see, would have seen) or...

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... form of will.) 1.15 The formation of the present tense The forms of the present tense of all verbs except be and have are homopho- nous with the stem of the verb (e. g. underline), except in the ... underlines). (The stem is that part of the verb that remains con- stant in the different forms of the verb, e. g. unravel in unravels, unravelled, unravel...

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... Introduction pairing of a meaning and a particular form of the verb. In English the second of these two elements is lacking when ingressive meaning is expressed. 1.22.3 The same is true where the expression of egressive’ ... describe the situation as characteristic of the referent of the subject NP over a certain period of time. English has a special form to ex...

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... situation-template denoted by walk .The denotation of such a complex predicate constituent is determined in the first instance by the meanings of the verb and of the other components of the predi- cate constituent ... as consisting of a subject NP and a predicate constituent. The latter consists of the verb phrase (VP) and the optional adverbial(s), if any....

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... (and to the clauses denoting them), the literature also applies these labels to the verbs or verb phrases which typically refer to a particular group of situations. We read of ‘punctual verbs’, ‘durative ... Using the term verb phrase (VP) Strictly speaking, a verb phrase is a phrase (group of words) with a verb as head. Thus, the clause John presumably left the...

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... of situation that is characteristic of the referent of the subject NP over an extended period of time Ϫ see 1.23). This static interpretation is due to the use of the nonprogressive form of the ... example, the features [( dynamic] and [( agentive] help to deter- mine the possibility of using the verb phrase in the progressive form. The distinction [( tel...

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