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Past participles are usually found in perfect or passive constructions in the verb phrase. Ex: Judit has finally finished her abstract. They can also function adjectivally. Ex: Judit is now exhausted. These observations lead us to ask several fundamental questions. What in the potential significate of the past participle allows it to be used in both the noun phrase and the verb phrase? What do these two functions have in common? Is a past participle still a past participle when it is used as an adjective? And finally, why is it that not all past participles can function adjectivally? In …
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Get is a ubiquitous verb in English. It appears in one of its forms – get, gets, getting, got, gotten – in a great variety of contexts and it plays a number of very different roles in discourse. The subject of my present thesis is an examination of get as a verb of transition or change of state in which get is situated with respect to be, a verb of state, and become, a verb of transition, two verbs for which get can sometimes be substituted. At this point in time I am considering the different ways in which to …
