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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Infinitives"”.
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Infinitives
… is an investigation of the structure of control infinitives, the mechanism of control, and the general architecture of clauses involving auxiliaries and modals. The dissertation challenges the idea that control infinitives are represented uniformly by a clausal (CP) structure. It is argued that …
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English Goal Infinitives
… on the kinds of phrases to which goal infinitives can adjoin, as well as the identification of the referents of unexpressed arguments, follow from what it means to be a particular type of goal, and therefore need not be stipulated. Knowledge of goal relations is part of the encyclopedic …
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Tough constructions in the context of English infinitives
The dissertation was inspired by the question of why subjects cannot undergo tough movement (1). (1) a. Jonathan Franzen is easy for Anneke to criticize b. *Anneke is easy - to criticize Jonathan Franzen. To answer this question, this dissertation proposes that a spec-to-spec anti-locality …
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Aspects of the grammar of infinitives and f̲o̲ṟ-phases.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Verbs as nouns: empirical investigations on event-denoting nominalizations
… and their corresponding verbal nouns, e.g. infinitives (il mutare, ‘the changing’) or gerunds (exploding). These are usually perceived as alternatives, since their semantic difference is not clearly understood by neither native speakers nor linguists. The aim of this work is to understand …
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Elements of control
… What semantic and syntactic properties of infinitives determine their place in the control typology? How is the "understood subject" PRO linked to the controller? This thesis investigates these questions in two steps: First, we establish a typology of control and characterize the empirical …
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A descriptive study of perceived and assessed business letter writing problems of bankers in branch locations
… technical aspects highest in difficulty: infinitives (split); sentence syntax; antecedents of pronouns; wordiness (excessive); dangling participles; and preposition usage. The bankers answered a survey concerning their access to training and instruction in business letter writing. Each …
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Acquisition of the T and C system in clausal complements
… By adapting Wexler's (1998) theory of optional infinitives to a Pesetsky and Torrego (2001, 2002) framework, I show that the facts about both finite and nonfinite embedded clauses are due to three conflicting constraints: a modified Unique Checking Constraint based on that in Wexler (1998), a …
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Semi-Lexical Heads in Czech Modal Structures
… that contain a finite verb followed by multiple infinitives (verb clusters), such as Jan musel chtít začít studovat lingvistiku ‘John had to want to begin studying linguistics.’ The term Complex Verbal Domain (CVD) is devised for the verbal part of these structures. The analysis seeks to offer a …
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Ossetian: Revisiting inflectional morphology
… morphology, the forms previously described as infinitives are discussed and one of them is reanalyzed as a derived noun or adjective; the majority of verbs are regarded as having one stem form; tense is analyzed as a suffix that attaches to the stem; mood, person, number and transitivity …
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The Syntax of the Nominal Forms of the Verb in Livy Book XXX
<p>This study of the infinitives, gerundives, gerunds, supines, participles contained in Livy, Book 30, aims to point out how the author has made use of these constructions in this part of his history. In order to illustrate more clearly Livy's employment of these nominal forms of the verb, …
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A linguistic analysis of the articular infinitive in New Testament Greek
… formal characteristic that divides articular infinitives: those governed by prepositions (chapter 4) versus those that are not governed by prepositions (chapter 3). Chapter five compares and contrasts New Testament usage with analogous constructions in the LXX to see if the thesis is …
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A Diachronic and Areal Perspective on Subordination in Syriac and North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
… the preference for finite verbs instead of infinitives in complement clauses and purpose clauses; as well as the use of serial-like constructions with certain complement-taking verbs and in purpose clauses after motion verbs. These similarities are not unique to the modern languages but …
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Reflexes of Finiteness in Romance
… are examined, such as personal and inflected infinitives, as well as Balkan-style subjunctives in Romanian, Salentino, and southern Calabrian, morphologically finite verb forms which behave syntactically as non-finite verbs. First the categorial status of irrealis complements is studied; it is …
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L’acquisition des Catégories Fonctionnelles : Étude comparative du développement du DP français chez des enfants et des apprenants adultes
… omission of determiners, Null Subjects and Root infinitives in 2L1. The independent development of DP and CP is compatible with a structural economy approach to omissions but seems to speak against underspecification accounts that predict a parallel development of DP and CP. The second analysis …
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The prose style of Addison and Steele in the periodical essay
… up into short, jerkry stress patterns, utilizing infinitives or doublets (word-pairs). The study concludes with an investigation of sequence-signals and other syntactic, semantic, and rhythmic features which bind the total discourse. The concluding chapter is an analysis of an essay (Tatler No. …
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A Detailed Examination of TO-infinitive Development in Typically Developing Preschool-age Children
<p>Purpose. The purpose of this study was to conduct a detailed cross-examination of TO-infinitive use and TO-particle omission errors in typically developing children between the ages of 3;0 and 4;11 (years; months).</p> <p>Method. The current study utilized 1294 language transcripts from the …