Aspectual Verbs: a study of cease and continue

Two aspectual verbs, “cease” and “continue” do not conform to the usual opposition that exists between an infinitival complement and a gerund clause, and thus cannot be compared with “stop” or “carry on”. Unlike what happens with “stop”, the infinitive after “cease” does not express a goal, but, on...

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Main Author: Geneviève Girard-Gillet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2017-03-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/1036