Prepositional infinitives in Romance : a usage-based approach to syntactic change

✍ Scribed by Kim Schulte

Publisher: Peter Lang
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 409
Series: Studies in historical linguistics
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Pre-publishing version of Kim Schulte's Prepositional Infinitives in Romance, available from academia.edu.

✦ Table of Contents

Title page...3
Acknowledgements...7
List of gloss abbreviations...9
Preface...11
Brief résumé of chapters...13

Chapter 1: Motivation and theoretical parameters...17
Chapter 2: From Latin to Romance...69
Chapter 3: The infinitive in Spanish and Portuguese today...121
Chapter 4: Diachronic development of the infinitive in Spanish...209
Chapter 5: Portuguese and Spanish developments compared...253
Chapter 6: The infinitive in Romanian...283
Chapter 7: Relevance and reanalysis: prepositional complementizers...329

Conclusion...347
References...351
Appendix A Spanish texts...363
Appendix B Portuguese texts...371
Appendix C Romanian texts...383

Index....399

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