Infinitives: restructuring and clause structure

by Wurmbrand, Susanne

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Full title :Infinitives : restructuring and clause structure / by Susanne Wurmbrand.

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Publication Date:2003.

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Publisher(s):Mouton de Gruyter
Place of Publication:Berlin
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998).

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Description:1 online resource (x, 371 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9783110908329, 3110908328
oclc:ocn859154858
LC Classification:P293.2
Dewey Decimal:415.6

Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1. Infinitives in brief -- 2. Restructuring-its significance in history -- 2.1. The class of restructuring predicates -- 2.2. The structure of restructuring infinitives -- 2.3. The motivation for restructuring -- Chapter 2: Lexical restructuring -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Case assignment in restructuring constructions -- 2.1. A-movement-basic analysis -- 2.2. Other instances of pP-less infinitives -- 2.3. Restructuring vs. non-restructuring -- 2.4. The lack of case and bi-clausal approaches to restructuring -- 3. Tense properties of restructuring constructions.

3.1. Infinitival tense -- 3.2. Tense vs. irrealis aspect -- 3.3. Restructuring infinitives are tenseless -- 3.4. Overt tense markers in Japanese infinitives -- 3.5. The restructuring/tense connection -- 4. Other functional projections -- 4.1. The restructuring configuration and functional projections -- 4.2. CP-properties of restructuring infinitives -- 4.3. Infinitival marker -- 4.4. Negation -- 5. Verb raising in restructuring constructions -- 5.1. The verb raising/restructuring connection -- 5.2. Tense dependencies -- 5.3. Intervening heads -- 5.4. Dislocation of restructuring complements.

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Deutsch Grammar, Comparative and general -- Inf… Infinitives Infinitkonstruktion LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar … LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist…