ABSTRACT

A long established and highly regarded account of all aspects of the English verb taking account of recent work on tense, phase and aspect, and of the author's own research. Theoretical discussion is kept to a minimum, but the arguments are always presented within a modern theoretical framework.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|20 pages

1. I Finite and non-finite

It does

chapter 10|45 pages

Tense and phase

chapter 5|17 pages

Voice

chapter 6|42 pages

The modals of possibility and necessity

chapter 7|22 pages

The modals WILL and SHALL

chapter 8|14 pages

Marginal verbs

chapter |43 pages

The catenatives

chapter 10|25 pages

Phrasal and prepositional verbs

chapter 11|18 pages

Morphology