John M. Penhallurick
List of John Benjamins publications in which John M. Penhallurick is involved.
Article
1985 The Semantics of Auxiliary Do Studies in Language 9:3, pp. 311–333 | Article
The meaningfulness of auxiliary do has important implications for linguistic theory. Do signals a presupposition that some question attaches in some way to the event designated by the verb. Although useful as an auxiliary, do is semantically appropriate in all the contexts in which it is used… read more
