Ellipsis Conditions and the Status of the English Copula

Ellipsis Conditions and the Status of the English Copula [electronic resource] / Anthony R. Warner.

A discussion of constraints on ellipsis after auxiliaries in English focuses on a particular analytic problem concerning nonfinite verb phrases using "be", which has a historical dimension. A solution involving the morphological claim about the copula and its incorporation of tense-distinc...

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Main Author: Warner, Anthony R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986.
Subjects:
Diachronic Linguistics.
Dialects.
English.
Foreign Countries.
Language Usage.
Linguistic Theory.
Morphology (Languages)
Phrase Structure.
Semantics.
Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Tenses (Grammar)
Transformational Generative Grammar.

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