A Study of the Aspectual Complements of 'Begin' and 'Start'

Abstract The main purpose of this thesis is to study the aspectual complements of the aspectualizers begin and start. Aspectualizers are verbs that give aspectual readings to the sentence. I started with a summary of Freeds (1978) analysis. In this summary, semantic differences among seven aspectual...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhao, Xinzheng
Other Authors: Brody, J Mary
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2010
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-06092010-183224/