LEADER 04322nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910782511803321 005 20230524230924.0 010 $a1-282-19419-4 010 $a9786612194191 010 $a3-11-019783-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110197839 035 $a(CKB)1000000000689127 035 $a(EBL)325637 035 $a(OCoLC)290492777 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000254811 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11234999 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000254811 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10208834 035 $a(PQKB)10815798 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC325637 035 $a(DE-B1597)32255 035 $a(OCoLC)979583671 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110197839 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL325637 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10199648 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL219419 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000689127 100 $a20061201h20072007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe syntax of tenselessness $etense/mood/aspect-agreeing infinitivals /$fAnna-Lena Wiklund 210 1$aBerlin ;$aNew York :$cMouton de Gruyter,$d2007. 210 4$aŠ2007 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) 225 1 $aStudies in generative grammar,$x0167-4331 ;$v92 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-019043-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tChapter 1 Introduction --$tChapter 2 Properties of TMA-copying and participle copying --$tChapter 3 Copying and tense --$tChapter 4 Copying as a restructuring effect --$tChapter 5 Pseudocoordination is TMA-copying --$tChapter 6 Pseudocoordinating verbs are light verbs --$tChapter 7 Copying --$tChapter 8 The syntax of tenselessness --$tBackmatter 330 $aTense/Mood/Aspect-agreeing Infinitivals is an in-depth investigation of the syntax of verb-verb agreement phenomena in Swedish, including pseudocoordinations of the form John started and wrote 'John started writing' and double participles of the form John had been-able written 'John had been able to write'. Providing evidence from facts concerning extraction, locality, selection, and interpretation, the book argues that the relevant construction types all involve surface variants of "infinitives in disguise"; infinitivals that agree with the matrix clause in tense/mood/aspect. Arguments are presented in favour of taking the dependencies underlying the agreement to be instances of Agree between functional heads of the same label, a configuration that yields restructuring/clause-union. The main theoretical contributions of the book are two: (i) Agreement is proportional to functional structure: The possibility of "copying" a particular morphosyntactic form is contingent on the presence of the corresponding functional projection in the agreeing XP. (ii) Size constancy between restructuring/non-restructuring infinitivals: The category selected by a verb may remain constant between restructuring and non-restructuring configurations. It is suggested that an important aspect of restructuring may be alternation between unmarked (negatively specified) features and unvalued varieties of the same features, capturing properties such as "tenselessness", "finitelessness", etc. of restructuring infinitivals. The book is an important contribution to the syntax of infinitival clauses, the syntax of clause-union/restructuring, and more generally to the syntax of agreement phenomena in natural language. In addition, it provides a general reference source for anyone interested in the syntax of Swedish and other Scandinavian languages. 410 0$aStudies in generative grammar ;$v92. 606 $aSwedish language$xVerb 606 $aSwedish language$xTense 610 $aSwedish language. 610 $aSyntax. 610 $agenerative syntax. 610 $atense. 615 0$aSwedish language$xVerb. 615 0$aSwedish language$xTense. 676 $a439.75/62 700 $aWiklund$b Anna-Lena$01493672 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782511803321 996 $aThe syntax of tenselessness$93716757 997 $aUNINA