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UNINA9910795926403321 |
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Titolo |
Infinitives at the syntax-semantics interface : a diachronic perspective / / edited by Lukasz Jedrzejowski, Ulrike Demske |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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ISBN |
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3-11-051859-7 |
3-11-052058-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 362 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; Volume 306 |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Infinitive |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- 1. Infinitival patterns and their diachronic dynamics: Questions and challenges -- 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 -- 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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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