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Control, temporal orientation, and the cross-linguistic grammar of trying
Glossa, 2017 The verb try plays a starring role in many example sentences in the control literature. But one of its most basic properties has eluded satisfying explanation: for many speakers of English, try rejects non-control infinitival complements, as in %I tried ...
Thomas Grano
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2006 This paper examines the spontaneous (and elicited) production of questions in 3 typically developing French children (1;8-2;10) and 11 French children with SLI (3;10-9;1).
Cornelia Hamann
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To Inflect or Not to Inflect Is the Question Indeed: Infinitives in Second Language (L2) Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2007 In light of the predictions of two competing approaches to adult L2 acquisition – Full Access (FA) (e.g., White 1989, 2003; Schwartz & Sprouse 1996) and Failed Features (FF) (e.g., Hawkins & Chan 1997; Liceras & Díaz, 1999) – the present ...
Jason Rothman, Michael Iverson
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The Unfortunate Divorce of English Grammar from English Literature
Filolog, 2015 The disciplines of literature and linguistics have separated: it is possible for a student to earn a degree in English literature without having any linguistic expertise, and more specifically without knowing anything significant about the grammar of the
Geoffrey K. Pullum
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Portuguese infinitives: their pieces and their meaning
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022 Traditionally taken as one of the nominals forms of the verb, infinitives in Portuguese, in spite of their morphophonological homogeneity (-r), appear in a range of morphosyntactic contexts.
Maurício Sartori Resende +1 more
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The change of Frisian infinitives [PDF]
, 2017 This paper discusses the two types of infinitives in Frisian: infinitives ending in -E (e.g. rinne “walk”) and infinitives ending in -EN (e.g. rinnen “walk”).
LS Nederlandse taalkunde +2 more
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Finiteness in South Slavic Complement Clauses
Linguistica, 2020 This paper shows that the distribution of (non‑)finiteness in the South Slavic languages reflects an implicational scale along an independently attested semantic complementation hierarchy (e.g., Givón 1980). We suggest that in the South Slavic languages,
Susanne Wurmbrand +4 more
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Infinitive fronting as a transparency effect in Old and Middle French
IsoglossIn 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 +2 more
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Els infinitius del tipus 'néix(e)re' i la seva àrea geogràfica [PDF]
Sintagma, 2004 Infinitives of the type néix(e)re and their geographical area. The article defines the geographical area in which class II rhizotonic infinitives (and other class III verbs that are comparable with regard to their infinitive form) present epenthesis ...
Montserrat Adam Aulinas
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