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Unification of the Semantics of the Infinitive in English

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2013
This paper has two aims. The first aim is to unify the diverse interpretations of the to-infinitive in English. By adopting Lewis’s (1986) concept of possible worlds, I will claim that the infinitive represents incorporation of a possible world by the ...
Hisashi Morita
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On the prepositional nature of non-finite verbs

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010
This paper investigates the prepositional nature of non-finite verbal forms. Assuming well-known observations that relate the categories P and V on the one hand (see Chomsky 1970, 1981, Demirdache & Uribe-Etxebarria 2000, Hale & Keyser 2002, and ...
Ángel J. Gallego
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The Underlying Structures of "It is[noun/adjective][a gerund phrase]" [PDF]

, 2004
In English it is possible to say "It is hard to deceive me" and "It is hard deceiving me." The former expression using an infinitive is far more widely used than the latter using a gerund.
AIBA, Naomi
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Cognitive and communicative strategies for construction an intra-event perspective: gerundial constructions in English discourse [PDF]

Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики
Within the framework of the modern cognitive and discursive paradigm of linguistic knowledge, this article investigates the mental and pragmatic mechanisms underlying the functioning of gerundial constructions in the position of verbal complementation ...
Olga P. Ryabko
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Las cláusulas relativas en francés y su traducción al español [PDF]

Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2008
For any student of translation it is of great importance the study of grammatical aspects, both in the source language as well as in the target language. The contact be-tween these two languages may sometimes lead to the production of strange utter-ances.
Alma Leticia Ferado García
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Negation of resultative and progressive periphrases

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2015
This paper focuses on resultative and progressive periphrases in Spanish: and , respectively. These periphrases have been associated with several negated constructions. On the one hand, the negative particle no ‘not’ can precede the auxiliary verb ( and
Raquel González Rodríguez
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Translation of the gerund

, 2018
1. Pozdnyakova K.R., Sitko A.V. Translation of the gerund // Філологічні науки: історія, сучасний стан та перспективи досліджень: Матеріали міжнародної науково-практичної конференції: м. Львів, 8–9 грудня 2017 р.
Сітко, Алла Василівна
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Semantic Features and Time Concept in Gerund Structures in Russian and Turkish Languages

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2018
The gerund in Turkish consists of words which are formed by some verb suffixes and which do not indicate person and time. These words function as adverbs and affect the meaning of the predicate in sentences in different ways.
Leyla Çiğdem DALKILIÇ
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The gerund forms in Bulgarian and Macedonian dialects

, 1996
In this article I shall present the different gerund forms in Bulgarian and Macedonian dialects mentioned in the literature. This work is an update to the three articles published in Seminara po slavjanska filologija pri universiteta v Sofija (1921 and ...
Timo Hellgren, Hellgren, Timo; id_orcid
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The development of the Latin gerund in Rhaeto-Romance [PDF]

, 2021
L gerundie indichea la modalitèdes o la condizions de n'azion. L vegn durà demò te la forma prejenta; tel passà se doura de autra construzions perifrastiches.
Zivojinovic, Jelena, zivojinovic jelena
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