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This document discusses evidence that aspectuals (verbs expressing grammatical aspect) can be positioned inside or outside the verb phrase depending on whether a modal verb is present. To account for this, the author proposes that aspectuals move from inside the verb phrase to a higher position ("I"), but only if the higher position is not already occupied by a modal verb. The document then discusses the active-passive sentence alternation. It notes that in passive sentences, the patient noun phrase become

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