Infinitives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface : : A Diachronic Perspective /

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

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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 claus...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 362 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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