This book aims to clarify some puzzles that have been topical in formal linguistics for many decades now. It concerns the status of English and, for comparison, Czech infinitives, as opposed to finite clauses and marginally also gerunds. The book systematically demonstrates the functional (meaning) and syntactic (form) properties of infinitives. It highlights the essential properties common to all infinitives, their core structure in Logical Form (LF) and their relation to an irrealis feature. It also investigates the particularities of the various infinitival constructions.
This book aims to clarify some puzzles that have been topical in formal linguistics for many decades now. It concerns the status of English and, for comparison, Czech infinitives, as opposed to finite clauses and marginally also gerunds. The book systematically demonstrates the functional (meaning) and syntactic (form) properties of infinitives. It highlights the essential properties common to all infinitives, their core structure in Logical Form (LF) and their relation to an irrealis feature. It also investigates the particularities of the various infinitival constructions.
Michaela ¿akányová teaches and researches in the areas of morphosyntax and syntax in the Department of English and American Studies, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Her research interests also include morphology, semantics, and philosophy of language.
Inhaltsangabe
Michaela Cakányová- Table of Contents- Introduction: Survey of Chapter Contents- Syntax of the Infinitival Particle to- Verbal Semantics & the Form of the Clausal Complement- Structural Realizations of Infinitival Semantics- Distribution and Sizes of Non-finite Clauses- Bare Infinitives as Special Complements- Phasehood of Infinitives- Conclusion- Bibliography- Appendices
Michaela Cakányová- Table of Contents- Introduction: Survey of Chapter Contents- Syntax of the Infinitival Particle to- Verbal Semantics & the Form of the Clausal Complement- Structural Realizations of Infinitival Semantics- Distribution and Sizes of Non-finite Clauses- Bare Infinitives as Special Complements- Phasehood of Infinitives- Conclusion- Bibliography- Appendices
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