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By Karen Zagona

This learn is anxious with the constitution of verb words in English and Spanish, and with syntactic methods related to vice president and Vo. a prime concentration of realization is auxiliary verbs. it's argued that the constitution dominating those verbs is basically an identical in English and Spanish, as is the constitution dominating auxiliaries and 'main' verbs in each one language. It needs to be concluded that the prevalence of particular syntactic strategies affecting auxiliaries and different vice chairman ingredients within the languages doesn't stick to from parametrization of word constitution. it truly is argued that similarities among the 2 languages with recognize to the composition of so-called "V*" structures derive from the truth that vice chairman is authorized below either clauses of the main of complete Interpretation, i. e. , predication and sub categorization. designated syntactic techniques in English and Spanish are argued to stick to from the truth that there are inflectional positive aspects on the topic of every one of those licensing stipulations (including specification for [ ± prior) and nominal person/number good points) which impact govt relatives in targeted methods, leading to parametrization of S-structure representa­ tions. xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I desire to convey my appreCiatIOn to the dept of Romance Languages on the collage of Washington for help for coaching of the ultimate manuscript, and to the dept of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese on the college of Virginia for a go away within which a lot of this examine used to be accomplished.

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