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Infinitives at the syntax-semantics interface : a diachronic perspective /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2017]
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 306.
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  • 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 replacement7. 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.