Infinitives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: A Diachronic Perspective

✍ Scribed by Lukasz Jedrzejowski (editor); Ulrike Demske (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 372
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 306
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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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