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List of contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction: theoretical anddescriptive approaches to the study of the verb in English Bas Aarts andCharles F. Meyer; Part I. Theoretical Approaches to the Study of the EnglishVerb: 2. Grammatical relations in English Charles F. Meyer; 3. Competencewithout comp? Richard Hudson; 4. On the semantics of the object I. M.Schlesinger; 5. Secondary predicates in English Bas Aarts; 6. The Englishperfect as a secondary past tense Rodney Huddleston; 7.'How does thissentence interpret?' The semantics of English mediopassives Andrew Rosta; 8.The expression of root and epistemic possibility in English Jennifer Coates;Part II. Descriptive Approaches to the Study of the English Verb: 9. Find andwant: a corpus-based case study in verb complementation Jan Aarts and FlorAarts; 10. Indeterminacy between noun phrases and adjective phrases ascomplements of the English verb Geoffrey Leech and Lu Li; 11. Having a lookat the expanded predicate John Algeo; 12. 'This scheme is badly needed': someaspects of verb-adverb collocations Stig Johanssen; 13. That and zerocomplementisers in late modern English: exploring ARCHER from 1650-1990Edward Finegan and Douglas Biber; 14. Changing patterns of complementation,and concomitant grammaticalisation, of the verb help in present-day BritishEnglish Christian Mair; 15. Verbs in public and private speaking Jan Svartvikand Olof Ekedahl; 16. Some remarks on comment clauses Anna-Brita Stenstrom;Index of names; Subject index.