Infinitives - new book

EAN (ISBN-13): 9783111806235
Publishing year: 2003
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton

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ISBN/EAN: 9783111806235

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978-3-11-180623-5
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Book author: wurmbrand, wurmb

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Author: Susanne Wurmbrand
Title: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; Infinitives - Restructuring and Clause Structure
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton; de Gruyter Mouton
371 Pages
Publishing year: 2012-10-24
Berlin/Boston
Weight: 0,750 kg
Language: English
169,95 € (DE)

SA; BB; EA; Taschenbuch / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sprache, allgemein und Nachschlagewerke; linguistics; Grammar, syntax & morphology; Syntax; EA; BB

Chapter 1: Introduction Infinitives in brief - Restructuring: its significance in history Chapter 2: Lexical restructuring Introduction - Case assignment in restructuring constructions - Tense properties of restructuring constructions - Other functional projections - Verb raising in restructuring constructions - Summary Chapter 3: Functional restructuring Introduction - The split IP parameter - Motivating the lexical/functional distinction - German functional constructions - Summary Chapter 4: The infinitival subject Introduction - Infinitives with and without a syntactic subject - What is under control - Conclusion Chapter 5: Grades of (non-)restructuring Introduction - Restructuring vs. non-restructuring - Graded (non-)restructuring - Semantic classification of infinitives Chapter 6: Summary and conclusion Appendix: Overview - Verb classification - Distinguishing irrealis, propositional, factive - (Non-)Restructuring properties - Verb classifications in different languages References Index