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VP Shells - Linguistics
VP Shells - Linguistics
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He is come with me
Is the duke gone? Then is your cause gone too
How chance thou art returned so soon
She is fallen into a pit of ink
You sahll hear I am run away
Burzio (1986): the subjects of unaccusative verbs originate as their complements. Light verb
analysis: VPs canonically contain an outer vp shell headed by a strong (light) verb and an inner
VP core headed by a lexical verb and lexical verbs always rise from V to v.