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<DIV>Thanks for this response. </DIV>
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<DIV>Biber et al. refer to the kind of usage you seem to be thinking of as
'pro-verb' DO "substituting for some lexical verb" (Biber et al. 1999:
430). If I understand them correctly, they do not count pro-verb DO as an
auxiliary but avoid assigning to it lexical-verb status either. So, pro-verb DO
might be indeed 'something else', as you put it.</DIV>
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<DIV>Given that semantic bleaching and desemanticization are a common feature of
phraseology the binary distinction auxiliary verb/lexical verb is merely
intitial anyway.</DIV>
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<DIV>Best</DIV>
<DIV>Chris</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>