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1st Edition

Descriptive Syntax and the English Verb

By C. T. Onions Copyright 1984
    212 Pages
    by Routledge

    212 Pages
    by Routledge

    Intended for advanced students and researchers in linguistics, Descriptive Syntax and the English Verb, first published in 1984, focuses on the syntax of the English verb and notions of tense/aspect, transivity, passive, phrasal verb constructions, nominalisations and complement sentence types are explored. These constructions are shown t



    List of Tables;  Acknowledgements;  Introduction;  1. Tense and Aspect  2. Transitivity  3. Functions of the Passive  4. The Range of the Passive  5. Passive Participles  6. Phrasal Verbs  7. Nominalisations  8. Ing  9. Non-Finite Sentence Complements  10. Finite Sentence Compliments  11. Conclusion;  Index

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