THE INFINITIVAL MARKER <i>TO</i> AND AUX SYSTEM IN ENGLISH

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  • THE INFINITIVAL MARKER TO AND AUX SYSTEM IN ENGLISH

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This paper claims that the category VP, which is negated and reduced to the category S in GB-Theory, is essential for the syntax of to-infinitives. I will argue that the INFL system is inadequate as it stands when modals, do, have, and be are incorporated into it, and that some modals cannot be dealt with naturally without the category VP. Furthermore, it is shown that the infinitival marker to belongs to the category INF, and that INF is the head of VP in the same way that COMP is the head of the category S.

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  • ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

    ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 2 (0), 184-201, 1985

    The English Linguistic Society of Japan

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  • CRID
    1390282680304050944
  • NII Article ID
    130003650864
  • DOI
    10.9793/elsj1984.2.184
  • ISSN
    18843107
    09183701
  • Text Lang
    en
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    • JaLC
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