The minimalist syntax of defective domains: gerunds and infinitives
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1. Verfasser: Pires, Acrisio (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co. 2006
Schriftenreihe:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 98
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The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; dedication page; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS; INTRODUCTION; 1. THE MINIMALIST SYNTAX OF CLAUSAL GERUNDS; 2. CLAUSAL VERSUS TP-DEFECTIVE GERUNDS:; 3. AGREEMENT, CASE, CONTROL AND MOVEMENT IN INFINITIVES; 4. SYNTACTIC CHANGE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFLECTED AND NON-INFLECTED INFINITIVES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INDEX; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
This book unifies the analysis of certain non-finite domains, focusing on subject licensing, agreement, and Case and control. It proposes a minimalist analysis of English gerunds which allows only a null subject PRO (TP-defective gerunds), a lexical subject (gerunds as complements of perception verbs), or both types of subjects (clausal gerunds). It then analyzes Portuguese infinitives, showing that the morphosyntactic properties of non-inflected and inflected infinitives correlate with distinct treatments of obligatory and non-obligatory control. It explores these and other phenomena to show
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9027293155
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