ON “GET+PAST PARTICIPLE”
Tian He (Dept. of Foreign Languages,South China Univ. of Tech.)
Since the Get+past participle structure has not received much attention,this paper has made a study of it from the semantic and syntactic points of view.First,the Get+past participle is more informal,vivid and energetic,whereas Be+past participle is formal and colourless.Get+past participle is also called dynamic passive-denoting the changing of state.Secondly,the “Get” does not function as true auxiliary in questions and negatives as “Be”.As a result,“Do” must function as auxiliary.Third,compared with Be+past participle,Get+past participle rarely takes an agent.The paper also draws a conclusion that Get+past participle does not substitute for “Be” in the state passive and when verbs taking an infinitive as complement.Finally,this paper makes a brief introduction to the non_Get passive——Get+object+participle.
【Key Words】: Get+past participle Be+past participle difference Get+object+past participle
【CateGory Index】: H043