Abstract
Abstract This chapter describes the morphosyntactic categories of the verb in English, drawing on evidence from different subdisciplines of linguistics. It starts out with the morphological differences between lexical and auxiliary verbs. Then the distinction between regular and irregular verbs is examined, paying special attention to the various ways in which irregular verbs may be classified. This is followed by a discussion of the inflection of the modal auxiliary verbs. Additional topics dealt with include auxiliary clitics and weak forms, the encoding of negation, and the incorporation of infinitival to into certain verbs.
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