ABSTRACT

This chapter reviews the structural implications for the vP-shell, also adds weather-verbs to the picture, and points out a typological shift from intransitive to transitive. It discusses other typological changes that English has undergone, and summarizes the contributions of acquisition studies to the authors's understanding of inner and outer aspect. Outer aspect may emphasize or coerce the inner aspect, as summarized in , but its role in change is not extensive. The chapter describes the main structures and changes for the various verb types here and then apply it to weather-verbs, not yet discussed. It argues that children's first uses of a verb show its inner aspect as a central pivot. The chapter discusses that changes occurring in the argument structure of a verb are quite different from those occurring in the FLN.