The Rise of the To-Infinitive, Los, Bettelou

Автор: Joseph
Название: The Synchrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive
ISBN: 0521105331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521105330
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This study offers a comprehensive and illuminating account of one of the characteristics shared to some degree by the languages of the Balkan peninsula - Greek, Albanian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and Romanian - namely the loss of the infinitive and its replacement by finite verb forms.

Автор: Rudanko
Название: Infinitives and Gerunds in Recent English
ISBN: 3319463128 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319463124
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing clauses, which is a central area at the interface of syntax and semantics, against the background of what has been called the Great Complement Shift. Over the course of six chapters, the author explores the semantic properties of constructions where the general spread of gerundial -ing clauses occurs at the expense of to infinitives. The author draws on large electronic corpora, ensuring that new perspectives are opened on the basis of authentic corpus evidence. He identifies trends of variation and change in the use of the two constructions and proposes The Choice Principle, an innovative perspective on the semantics of to infinitives and gerundial -ing complements. This book will be of interest to researchers and students working on English grammar or the recent history of English grammar.