Descriptive Syntax and the English Verb - 9781138698406

Taylor & Francis

Descriptive Syntax and the English VerbAuthor(s): David Kilby\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138698406, 978-1138698406\nSynopsis\nIntended 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