The Development of English Aspectual Systems: Aspectualizers and Post-Verbal Particles

by Laurel J. Brinton

Laurel Brinton's important study of the development of English aspectual systems provides an exceptionally clear and systematic account of an area of syntax and semantics that continues to be the subject of both terminological and notional confusion. Not only has the study of aspect been confused, but the variety of aspectual markers in English has also been unduly neglected. In this book Dr Brinton convincingly demonstrates the need to make clear...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521116759
• ISBN13: 9780521116756
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"