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.
Preface xiii Pronunciation table 1 Introduction 2 The verb phrase 3 Tense and phase 4 Aspect 5 Voite 6 The modals of possibility and necessity 7 The modals WILL anct SHALL 8 Marginal verbs 9 The catenatives 10 Phrasal and prepositional verbs 11 Morphology References and citation index Verb index Subject index
