Infinitives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface : : A Diachronic Perspective / / ed. by Lukasz Jedrzejowski, Ulrike Demske.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Cuyckens, Hubert,; Demske, Ulrike,; Dékány, Éva,; D’hoedt, Frauke,; Grano, Thomas,; Hill, Virginia,; Jędrzejowski, Łukasz,; Kavčič, Jerneja,; Lühr, Rosemarie,; Nedelcu, Isabela,; Paraschiv, Irina,; Speyer, Augustin,; Wiemer, Björn,
• HerausgeberIn: Demske, Ulrike,; Jedrzejowski, Lukasz,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 306
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 362 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface and acknowledgments --; Table of contents --; List of contributors --; 1. Infinitival patterns and their diachronic dynamics: Questions and challenges --; I . Acl verbs and restructuring effects --; 2. Restructuring at the syntax-semantics interface --; 3. The Romanian infinitive selected by perception and cognition verbs --; 4. A diachronic perspective on the semantics of AcI clauses in Greek --; II. Infinitive structures versus other non-finite and finite patterns --; 5. Finite, infinitival and verbless complementation: The case of believe, suppose and find --; 6. Early Modern Romanian infinitives: origin and replacement --; 7. Semantic factors for the status of control infinitives in the history of German --; 8. Anti-agreeing infinitives in Old Hungarian --; 9. The emergence of expressions for purpose relations in older Indo-European languages --; 10. Main clause infinitival predicates and their equivalents in Slavic: Why they are not instances of insubordination --; Language index --; Subject index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110520583; 9783110762495; 9783110719543; 9783110742978; 9783110540550; 9783110625264; 9783110547887
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110520583
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Lukasz Jedrzejowski, Ulrike Demske.

The major aim of this volume is to investigate infinitival structures from a diachronic point of view and, simultaneously, to embed the diachronic findings into the ongoing theoretical discussion on non-finite clauses in general. All contributions subscribe to a dynamic approach to infinitival clauses by investigating their origin, development and loss in miscellaneous patterns and across different languages.