Begin and start: aspect and complement choice
The paper offers a semantic analysis of begin and start and their non-finite complementation: the to-infinitive and –ing constructions. The core idea of the paper is that the aspectual constructions ‘begin+ to infinitive’, ‘begin + ing’, ‘start+ to infinitive’, and ‘start+ ing’ have both a schematic...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
2008-01-01
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| Series: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/begin_and_start_aspect_and_complement_choice |