The Syntax and Morphology of English Verbs

The book provides a detailed empirical approach to constructing grammatical analysis and theory, in particular the analysis of English verbs. It develops an integrated formal description of the English verbal system and offers several theoretical advances in the treatment of verbs that have escaped formulation until now.



The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistic ...