Den engelske verbalfrases omfang og struktur

Sten Vikner

doi:10.7146/nfg.v23i22.23497

Den engelske verbalfrases omfang og struktur

Translated title of the contribution: The structure and the size of the English VP

Sten Vikner

School of Communication and Culture - English

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Hjulmand & Schwarz (2009:32, 2012:33) (and many others) assume that "has concluded" constitutes a verb phrase (VP) in the example "The British car industry has concluded a deal with the Japanese government". I want to defend a different analysis, namely that "concluded" constitutes a VP together with the object, i.e. "The British car industry has concluded a deal with the Japanese government". In such an analysis, VPs are not limited to consist of only verbs, just like NPs may contain more than nouns and PPs more than prepositions. Another advantage of is a better account of examples like "Saved many a life at sea, they have". The VP-internal structural difference between arguments (e.g. objects) and adjuncts (e.g. adverbials) will also be discussed, as well as discontinuous VPs. Finally, the appendix will discuss the analysis of Danish.

Translated title of the contribution	The structure and the size of the English VP
Original language	Danish
Journal	Ny Forskning i Grammatik
Volume	22
Pages (from-to)	271-289
Number of pages	19
ISSN	1902-1291
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7146/nfg.v23i22.23497
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Similarities and Differences between Clauses and Nominals - Comparative Syntax across Theoretical Approaches
Vikner, S. (Project manager), Engels, E. (Participant), Krogh, S. (Participant), Nølke, H. (Participant), Tafteberg, K. P. (Participant) & Wood, J. (Participant)
01/02/2008 → 31/12/2012
Project: Research
Object positions - Comparative linguistics in a cross-theoretical perspective
Jørgensen, H. J. (Project manager), Vikner, S. (Project manager), Bjerre, T. (Participant) & Engels, E. (Participant)
01/04/2005 → 30/06/2007
Project: Research

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