Mental Representation of Word Family Structure: The Case of German Infinitives, Conversion Nouns and Other Morphologically Related Forms. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 This study investigates how two non-finite forms, infinitives and conversion nouns, are represented in the mind of L1 and L2 speakers and what is their relationship to other members of the corresponding word family.
Opitz A, Bordag D, Furgoni A.
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The rise of lexical subjects in English covert infinitives
Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2023 This paper explores subjectness of the so-called covert infinitives in English. Control and raising-to-subject infinitives are known to have a covert or null subject; hence they are known as the covert infinitives.
Lemohang Tjabaka
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Acquisition and Development of Verb/Predicate Chaining in Hebrew. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2019 The study considers development and use of verb/predicate chaining constructions by Hebrew speakers from early childhood to adolescence, based on analysis of authentic conversational and narrative corpora.
Berman R, Lustigman L.
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Spontaneous productions of infinitive clauses by English-speaking children with and without specific language impairment [PDF]
Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2021 Amy Wilder
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On the resilience of obligatory control in inflected infinitives under object control verbs
Glossa, 2023 This study investigates the interpretation of inflected infinitives under object control verbs in European Portuguese. It contrasts the behaviour of two different types of control verbs, represented by obrigar ‘force’ and convencer ‘convince’, and ...
Ana Lúcia Santos
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Languages, 2021 Despite the relatively scarce literature on the topic and the lack of terminological consensus among scholars, Cognate Infinitives (CI) have been identified to share formal and functional characteristics across Semitic.
Ana Iriarte Díez
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Fausses infinitives de but et mirativité
Anglophonia, 2020 This article aims to analyse complex constructions with infinitival clauses which have hardly ever been taken into account, and whose infinitives imply, contrary to most infinitives, the validation of their semantic content.
Geneviève Girard-Gillet
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Syntactic functions of the inessive of II infinitive in the Veps language: dynamics of development
Финно-угорский мир, 2020 Introduction. The feature of the Baltic-Finnish languages is a system of infinitives and infinitive constructions. The article analyzes the syntactic roles of the inessive of the II infinitive, which according to the Baltic-Finnish syntax classification ...
Maria V. Kosheleva
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(No) competition between deverbal nouns and nominalized infinitives in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 This paper explores the distribution of deverbal nouns and nominalized infinitives that are built on transitive verbs and occur in eventive interpretations.
Barbara Schirakowski
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Infinitive vs. Gerund Use and Interpretation in Heritage Spanish
Languages, 2023 The present study examines the production and interpretation of infinitives among 26 Spanish heritage speakers born and raised in the US and 25 Spanish-dominant speakers from Mexico and Colombia.
Laura Solano-Escobar, Alejandro Cuza
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