English Syntax and Argumentation

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“…According to Aarts (1997) the verbs that function as helping verb and cannot occur independently are called auxiliary verbs. Auxiliary are used in different aspects.…”

Transitivity and Case Assignment in Ígálâ

“…For example, hate is a transitive verb in sentences like I hate him because it checks the objective case of him." Thus, even though there seems to be no controversy on the notion of transitivity as a concept or the identification of a transitive verb as a verb that takes at the core a direct object (Finegan 2004, Aarts 2008), a simple categorisation of transitivity in this taxonomic manner would only form a view representational of traditional grammar which makes a binary distinction between transitive verbs such as throw, injure and kiss that take a direct object, and intransitive verbs such as fall or sit that cannot take a direct object.…”

Genitiv-syntaks: Er <em>s</em> et D eller et G?

“…Dette er antagelig det staerkeste argument for OP-analysen overhovedet fordi det bygger på en helt central hjørnesten i forståelsen af hvad en syntaktisk konstituent er, se fx Aarts (1997Aarts ( /2008, Bjerre et. al (2008: 145), Carnie (2007: 88-89), Haegeman (2006: 74), Radford (1997: 109).…”