Verb Tense and Head Movement in English Syntax

Posted by on Feb 3, 2025 in Modern Languages | 0 comments

Quite often, the verbal element is composite. On top of the lexical element V, we have some auxiliary-like element which marks the inflection for tense and person:

  • She will/can/has/is go/going/gone

We will simply assume that such auxiliaries are in the T head. Now, how about cases where the verb is a single form with both the lexical element and the inflectional element together?

  • She goes/went home

These are inflected forms, and we will have to assume that they involve both the V and the T heads. What

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