handout), simple and complex VPs; categories of the English verb: mood (indicative, imperative, subjunctive), tense (the number of tenses; present, past, constructions for expressing future time), aspect (progressive and perfective), voice (syntactic and semantic valence, grammatical relations, semantic roles, active-passive correspondence, agentless passives, verb constraints, transitivity, characteristics of the personal passive, etc.) Vendler's classification of verbs + semelfactives (read Van Valin 2005); the characteristic features of these verb types and tests that can be used to identify them. Finite verb phrases: a) Finite VPs can occur as the VP of independent clauses b) Finite VPs have tense contrast c) There is a person concord and number concord between the subject of a clause and the finite VP. d) Finite VPs contain, as their first or only word, a finite verb form which may be either an operator or a simple present or past form
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