Bas Aarts

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Bas Aarts



Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Survey of English Usage at University College London, UK. His research interest is in the field of syntax, more specifically verbal syntax. He has published widely in the field and is one of the founding editors of the journal English Language and Linguistics.

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Oxford Modern English Grammar

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English Syntax and Argument...

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The Verb Phrase in English:...

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Small Clauses in English: T...

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Syntactic Gradience: The Na...

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“It is because the verb BE has a plain form which does not share its shape with any of the present tense forms that we need to distinguish the plain form as a distinct inflectional form. And if we do so for BE we should do so for all verbs.”
Bas Aarts, Oxford Modern English Grammar

“23 furious > furiously (class-changing: adjective to adverb) 24 happy > happiness (class-changing: adjective to noun) 25 regular > regularize /-ise (class-changing: adjective to verb) 26 relate > relation (class-changing: verb to noun) 27 spite > spiteful (class-changing: noun to adjective) 28 work > workable (class-changing: verb to adjective) 29 yellow > yellowish (class-maintaining: adjective) In Table 2.10 a number of common derivational suffixes are shown.”
Bas Aarts, Oxford Modern English Grammar

“As users of English we often need a grammatical device to make reference to the way a particular event unfolds in time. This is called aspect.”
Bas Aarts, Oxford Modern English Grammar



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