My recent research has been on the nature of multi-verb sequences in English from multi-angled perspectives.
I briefly explain what a multi-verb sequence is. The term 'multi-verb sequence' in my research is defined as follows. There are four types of multi-verb sequences in English, the V-to-V, the V-Ving, the V-and-V, the V-V sequences, where the first verb slot is always a single verb and the second verb slot can be either a single verb or a verb in a verb phrase. The sentences in (1) and (2) are typical examples in my research.
(1) a. He like to put lots of ketchup on his fries.
b. His father always enjoyed playing golf at weekends.
c. At school he boxed and played rugby.
d. He was coming to help clean the machines.
(2) a. She went to see 'Twelfth Night'.
b. She went sobbing up the stairs.
c. She went and bought one hundred eggs.
d. Go wash your hands.
The fist verb and the second verb can be either intransitive or transitive. The multi-verb sequence always lacks an intervening noun phrase between the first and the second verb. I syntactically divide various uses of multi-verb sequences into two groups, and I call the two groups the full-syntactic-structure group and the reduced-structure group. As in (1), in the full-syntactic-structure group, a particular multi-verb sequence involves two verb phrases, and as in (2), in the reduced-structure group, a particular multi-verb sequence is a part of a single verb phrase.
The bibliography of multi-verb sequences is a major source of information for anyone interested in multi-verb sequences. It covers monographs, edited volumes, articles from volumes and journals, dissertations, proceedings, working papers, unpublished works, and conference papers.
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