Inflected Infinitive in Romance Languages
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Adverbial Clauses
Author_Emily E. Scida
biclausal
Biclausal Constructions
Biclausal Structure
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Category=CF
Category=DS
Complement Clauses
Conjunction Ut
construction
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european
final
Final Predicate
Future Subjunctive
historical morphology
imperfect
Imperfect Subjunctive
Infinitival Clause
Inflected Form
Inflected Infinitive
Latin subjunctive analysis
Main Verb
nonfinite verb forms
Overt Subject
Past Tense
Perception Verbs
Pluperfect Subjunctive
portuguese
Portuguese syntax
predicate
Predicate Clefting
Purpose Clauses
Reflexive Clitic
relational grammar
Romance linguistics
Separate Clause
subjunctive
Subordinate Finite Clauses
Superordinate Clause
syntactic
Syntactic Distribution
syntactic evolution in Romance languages
uninflected
Uninflected Infinitive
Vicente Risco
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- ISBN 9781138878334
- Weight: 249g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book investigates two prominent issues with regard to the inflected infinitive-the syntactic distribution of the Portuguese inflected infinitive, and its origin and development from Early Romance. The syntactic analysis offered here differs from traditional descriptions of the inflected infinitive in that it uses a theoretical approach to propose one concise condition which predicts all possible occurrences of the Portuguese inflected infinitive within the framework of relational grammar. While the first section of this book offers a synchronic study of the use of the inflected infinitive, the second section examines the theories previously posited to explain its origin and provides additional evidence from Latin and other Romance languages to support the proposal that the inflected infinitive was a historical development rooted in the Latin imperfect subjunctive. This study presents a detailed comparison of the syntactic environments common to both the imperfect subjunctive and the inflected infinitive, and examines the survival of an inflected infinitive in other Romance varieties as well as the existence of other inflected non-finite forms in these languages.
Emily E. Scida is currently Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Virginia, where she is also Director of the Spanish and Italian language programs.
