Ian Hollenbaugh

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ian Hollenbaugh is involved.

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Hollenbaugh, Ian 2025 Habitual be in American English Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell, Arche, María J., Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer (eds.), pp. 300–326 | Chapter
This paper examines an obscure use of the verb be in English, which under certain circumstances may be inflected as be’s to indicate the habituation of a predicate (type If she just be’s (??is) herself, she’ll do fine in the debate). After a description of the data, I show that this construction… read more
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