TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hirtle,W.H.
TI  - Lessons on the English verb: no expression without representation 
SN  - 9780773560277
AV  - PE1271 .H57 2007eb
U1  - 425/.6 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Verb
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Grammar & Punctuation
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Syntax
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-341) and index; Introduction -- On Studying the Verb -- Chronogenesis I: Aspect -- Chronogenesis II: Mood -- Chronogenesis III: Tense -- The Simple Form I: Activities -- The Simple Form II: States -- The Simple Form III: Prospective Events -- The Subjunctive -- Person in the Verb -- What Does Do Do? -- Compounding with Do -- The Progressive -- The Transcendent Aspect: Perfective Events -- The Transcendent Aspect: Imperfective Events -- The Passive -- Auxiliaries -- The System of Voice: A Hypothesis -- Conclusion
N2  - While the work of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960) has had an important influence on French linguistics, his theory is not well known in the English-speaking world. Lessons on the English Verb provides a comprehensive treatment of the English verbal system within a Guillaumean theoretical framework - an approach unprecedented in its systemic scope
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