Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure

✍ Scribed by Susanne Wurmbrand

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 384
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; 55
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure offers a detailed study of the clausal architecture of infinitival constructions providing a unified analysis of restructuring, control, modals, and raising. The book critically evaluates previous proposals from both syntactic and semantic perspectives and presents a new analysis incorporating many recent developments in generative linguistic theory. In addition to its theoretical contribution, Infinitives contains a detailed descriptive overview of a range of constructions, primarily from the Germanic languages and will thus not only be of value to generative linguists but will also serve as a general reference source for those interested in the Germanic languages.

✦ Table of Contents

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 νP-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
6. Summary
Chapter 3: Functional restructuring
1. Introduction
2. The split IP parameter
2.1. English vs. German
2.2. German clause structure
3. Motivating the lexical/functional distinction
3.1. Restructuring predicates as auxiliaries
3.2. Lexical/functional differences in German
3.3. Restructuring and functional structure (Cinque 2000)
4. German functional constructions
4.1. Modal constructions
4.2. Raising constructions
4.3. Semi-functional constructions
5. Summary
Chapter 4: The infinitival subject
1. Introduction
2. Infinitives with and without a syntactic subject
2.1. Binding
3. What is under control
3.1. Main proposal
3.2. Syntax ≠ semantics
3.3. “It” anaphors
4. Conclusion
Chapter 5: Grades of (non-)restructuring
1. Introduction
2. Restructuring vs. non-restructuring
3. Graded (non-)restructuring
3.1. Restructuring vs. reduced non-restructuring
3.2. Non-restructuring
4. Semantic classification of infinitives
4.1. Two ways to forget
4.2. Factive (and propositional) infinitives
Chapter 6: Summary and conclusion
Appendix
1. Overview
2. Verb classification
3. Distinguishing irrealis, propositional, factive
3.1. Irrealis properties
3.2. Factive, propositional
4. (Non-)Restructuring properties
4.1. Passive
4.2. Pronoun fronting
4.3. Scrambling
5. Verb classifications in different languages
5.1. Rizzi (1976, 1982)
5.2. Napoli (1981)
5.3. Zagona (1982), Aissen and Perlmutter (1976, 1983)
5.4. Picallo (1985)
5.5. Burzio (1986)
5.6. Fanselow (1989)
5.7. Rutten (1991)
5.8. Haider (1993)
5.9. Sabel (1994/1996)
5.10. Cinque (1997)
5.11. Grosse (2000)
References
Index