Let's not forget the power of the complete sentence and the humble predicate verb — the "motor" of a good sentence An analysis out of Washington suggests that some top military brass have had it with ...

The present and past progressive tenses in Persian are the only tenses in which both the main verb and the minor verb dâštan "to have" receive agreement marking. Morpho-syntactically, Persian ...

In the preparation of this book we deeply acknowledge the help and advice of a number of colleagues of our Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Lengua Inglesa), Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. A vote of ...

Happy is the main lexical predicate here. It takes one argument: an experiencer--John. Tall takes one argument: a theme: Mary. (12) *John is being tall. (13) *Mary is being fond of red roses. (14) ...