This volume sheds light on one of the most emblematic constructions in Ibero-Romance: adverbial infinitives with specified subjects, as in al entrar Juan (Sp), para eles verem o resultado (Ptg). From a cognitive-functional perspective and on the basis of elaborate empirical (cor…
The author analyses the grammaticalization of 'give' with infinitive in causative and modal constructions in the closely related Slavic languages Russian, Polish and Czech. Drawing on extensive diachronic and synchronic corpus data, the study combines a detailed analysis of the …
The author analyses the grammaticalization of 'give' with infinitive in causative and modal constructions in the closely related Slavic languages Russian, Polish and Czech. Drawing on extensive diachronic and synchronic corpus data, the study combines a detailed analysis of the …
"Infinitives: Restructuring and clause structure offers a detailed case study of infinitival constructions in German. The primary thesis of the book is that infinitival complements do not all have the same syntactic structure and that the syntactic differences correspond closely…
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