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Infinitivo pessoal – um fenómeno português?

Studia Iberystyczne, 2014
PERSONAL INFINITIVE – A PORTUGUESE PHENOMENON? OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE INFLECTIVE INFINITIVE The purpose of the article is to present the issue of the naming and the origin of the Portuguese inflected infinitive.
Joanna Drzazgowska
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La phrase infinitive en breton

La Bretagne Linguistique, 1988
The infinitive sentence in Breton is used as a subordinate and independent sentence. Although the word order in the finite sentence is VSO, the infinitive sentence has a different order which is SVO.
Janig Stephens
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Lições sobre a sintaxe histórica do infinitivo português

Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2012
Resumo: Exponho a sintaxe histórica do infinitivo final e do infinitivo objetivo do português, partindo da sintaxe histórica do infinitivo latino. Este, originalmente forma nominal pura, isto é, ablativo ou dativo de nome de ação, emprega-se como adjunto
Marcos Martinho dos Santos
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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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Sex as Spoken Words in Contemporary British Drama

MediAzioni
This paper focuses on the descriptive acts of sex and intimacy on the contemporary British stage as written texts and spoken words. The paper will specifically be exploring the use of language in Katherine Chandler’s Lose Yourself (2019) and Anna Jordan ...
Alexander Millington
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The verbal suffix *-nǫ-/-ny- in western South Slavic dialects

Hrvatski Dijalektološki Zbornik, 2022
The verbal class which is characterized by a suffix -nu- in the infinitive and -ne- in the present shows considerable dialectal diversity in Croatian and in the other western South Slavic languages.
Tijmen Pronk
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Growth in Infinite Groups of Infinite Subsets [PDF]

Algebra Colloquium, 2015
Given an infinite group G, we consider the finitely additive invariant measure defined on finite unions of cosets of finite index subgroups. We show that this shares many properties with the size of subsets of a finite group, for instance we can obtain equivalent results on the Ruzsa distance and product free sets.
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Infinitive Interrogative Sentences in Russian and Persian: Modal Meanings of Potentiality and Efficiency

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2020
The article is a study of infinitive interrogative sentences bearing meanings of potentiality and efficiency in Russian and the means to render those in Persian.
Amir Aliasghar Hoseini, Tabassom Khakrah Kahnamouei   +1 more
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Infinitive fronting as a transparency effect in Old and Middle French

Isogloss
In this article, we present a novel analysis of infinitive fronting in Old and Middle French (9th-16th century). We find that in sentences with modal verbs and clitic climbing, the infinitive may either follow the main verb or precede it.
Marc Olivier, Christina Sevdali, Raffaella Folli   +2 more
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The Use of the Infinitive and Participle in the Consecutive Clauses of the Greek Documentary Papyri of the Imperial and Early Arabic Period

Cahiers Balkaniques, 2023
: The aim of the present study is to examine the way of syntax of the consecutive clauses with infinitive and participle in Greek non-literary papyri of the Imperial and the early Arabic Period.
Eleni Tsitsianopoulou
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