TY - BOOK AU - Emonds,Joseph Embley TI - The Syntax and Morphology of English Verbs: Patterns that Matter T2 - Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , SN - 9783110738711 AV - PE1271 .E46 2022 U1 - 425.6 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - English language KW - Grammar, Generative KW - Morphology KW - Syntax KW - Verb KW - Englisch KW - Morphologie KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - English Verbs KW - Theoretical Syntax N1 - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1 English modals and be are not irregular verbs --; 2 The single English Past morpheme –ed / -en --; 3 Regular inflections and contractions: Limits on grammatical irregularity --; 4 Polyfunctional –ing: Can any other language match it? --; 5 Gerunds vs. infinitives: Less alike than they look --; 6 English passive structures and the passive participle --; 7 The empirical basis of theoretical advance --; References --; Index of cited authors --; Index of definitions, principles, tables and trees --; Index of English lexical entries; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110734379 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110734379 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110734379/original ER -