The Verb in Contemporary English
Aarts, Bas / Bas, Aarts / Meyer, Charles F.![The Verb in Contemporary English](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/956/9566409/CHSBZCOP039566409.jpg)
This collection of essays sheds new light on the verb in English. The authors illustrate that verbs can only be properly understood if studied from both a theoretical and descriptive perspective. In Part One, the authors explore topics such as the terminological problems of classification, verb complementation, the semantics and pragmatics of verbs and verbal combinations, and the notions of tense, aspect, voice and modality. In Part Two, comp...