THE STRUCTURE OF AUXILIARIES WITHIN THE COMPLEX VERBAL GROUPS
THE STRUCTURE OF AUXILIARIES WITHIN THE COMPLEX VERBAL GROUPS

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the structure of auxiliaries in the complex Verbal Groups. Every complex Verbal group contains one or more auxiliaries and a lexical verb as its Head. The auxiliary contains up to four immediate constituents, each one being represented by its own auxiliary verb: modal, perfect aspect, progressive aspect and passive voice. In this paper we demonstrate that it is possible to combine them in any way, but the order they appear in is very strict, and each of them is optional and can appear only once.

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