{"product_id":"catenatives-or-complex-vp-the-debate-about-specific-verbs-in-english-von-jan-niehues","title":"Catenatives or complex VP - the debate about specific verbs in English","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Marburg, course: Problems of English Grammar, language: English, abstract: Most linguists agree that there is a particular feature of certain verbs like e.g.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewant, begin, try or seem that sets them apart from other verbs: their ability to be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecombined into chains of verbs, to 'catenate' (Lat. catena: chain).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(1) I don't want to have to be forced to begin to try to make more money. (Palmer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1987: 172)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe term usually used for these verbs is 'catenative verbs'. There remains\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esome form of disagreement about almost every aspect of these verbs, however,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eranging from the question which verbs actually are catenative, to the problem of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehow to analyse or categorise them. Some linguists even question the need to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edefine a class of catenative verbs in the first place. Huddleston concedes that:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is one of the most difficult areas of English grammar and despite a great deal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof intensive study over the last twenty years there remains much disagreement over\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe most basic aspects of the analysis.\"(Huddleston 1997: 209)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe treatment of the grammatical phenomena is further complicated by the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efact that linguists tend to introduce their own categories or descriptions for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexisting categories. This is particularly evident in the argument of modals vs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eauxiliaries vs. operators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn approach differing from that traditionally taken by grammarians is that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epresented by Dieter Mindt who bases his observations on the analysis of a corpus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof actual language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis paper gives an overview of the theories concerning catenative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003everbs, their relation to the auxiliaries and their features of clause\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomplementation. Due to the scope of work that has been published, only the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emain approaches will be considered. The field of semantics in particular would\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emerit a much closer look on the effects of sentence taxis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783638813709\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783638813709","offer_id":39422803935325,"sku":"9783638813709","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/388b97a7-74ee-4957-903d-935275c526f8.jpg?v=1777440745","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/catenatives-or-complex-vp-the-debate-about-specific-verbs-in-english-von-jan-niehues","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}