著者

YUSUKE KUME

出版者

The English Linguistic Society of Japan

雑誌

ENGLISH LINGUISTICS (ISSN:09183701)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, no.1, pp.132-149, 2009 (Released:2013-09-01)

参考文献数

23

被引用文献数

7

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In Present-day English, some motion verbs including come and go can be followed by the bare form of another verb, forming so-called “Double Verb Constructions," which have some unique properties like the inflectional restriction, the selectional restriction on their subjects, and the single event interpretation. These properties are argued to be closely related to their development from V and V constructions in infinitive and imperative uses through grammaticalization in Middle and Modern English. It is shown that as a result of grammaticalization, the relevant motion verbs have been reanalyzed into light verbs located in v that take an infinitival VP complement.