Prepositional Infinitives in Romance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prepositional Infinitives in Romance write by Kim Schulte. This book was released on 2007. Prepositional Infinitives in Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the present-day distribution and diachronic evolution of a set of infinitival structures in Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian, making use of extensive corpus data and investigating how pragmatic factors and usage patterns interact with syntax. After a contrastive account of the patterns of clausal subordination in Latin and Romance, the rise of prepositional infinitives is traced through the documented history of the three languages, revealing astonishing parallels in their development. The analysis of the data shows how cognitive principles such as reanalysis and entrenchment combine with parameters such as relevance and usage frequency to cause syntactic change. Beyond providing a genuine explanation for the observed processes in the Romance languages, this study offers new evidence for the existence of language-independent, cross-linguistically applicable principles and mechanisms in language change.
Pragmatic Causation in the Rise of the Romance Prepositional Infinitive
Pragmatic Causation in the Rise of the Romance Prepositional Infinitive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pragmatic Causation in the Rise of the Romance Prepositional Infinitive write by Kim Schulte. This book was released on 2006. Pragmatic Causation in the Rise of the Romance Prepositional Infinitive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects
Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects write by Guido Mensching. This book was released on 2000-07-06. Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Overt subjects are usually considered as a property of finite clauses. However, most Romance languages permit specified subjects in a broad range of infinitive constructions. Guido Mensching analyzes this phenomenon in stages of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and other Romance varieties.
The Inflected Infinitive in Romance Languages
The Inflected Infinitive in Romance Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Inflected Infinitive in Romance Languages write by Emily E. Scida. This book was released on 2004-08. The Inflected Infinitive in Romance Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish
Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish write by Ida Larsson. This book was released on 2022-03-16. Morphosyntactic change in Late Modern Swedish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores morphosyntactic change in the Late Modern Swedish period from the 18th century and onwards. This period is interesting, for a number of reasons. This is when Swedish is established as a national standard language. New genres emerge, and the written language becomes more generally available to all speakers. We also sometimes find diverging developments in the different North Germanic languages, and some of the much-discussed differences between Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are established during this period. In addition, during the 19th and 20th centuries, the traditional dialects undergo more dramatic changes than ever. Yet, the Late Modern Swedish period has previously received fairly little attention in the syntactic literature. This volume aims to remedy this, with studies that cover several different grammatical domains, including case and verbal syntax, word order and agreement, and grammaticalization in the nominal domain. The study by Cecilia Falk investigates the possibility of promoting an indirect object to subject in a passive, that emerges during the period. A chapter by Fredrik Valdeson studies change in the use of ditransitive verbs, from a constructional perspective. Three chapters are concerned with word order change. The study by Ida Larsson and Björn Lundquist investigates the development of a strict word order in particle constructions. Adrian Sangfelt studies the possibility of having adverbials (and other constituents) between the separate verbal heads in complex VPs in the final stages of the shift from OV to VO order. Erik M. Petzell investigates embedded verb placement and agreement morphology in the Viskadalian dialect, which on the surface seems to contradict the Rich Agreement Hypothesis. Mikael Kalm discusses the emergence of different kinds of adverbial infinitival clauses in the standard written language compared to Övdalian. Finally, the study by Lars-Olof Delsing is concerned with a case of grammaticalization in the nominal domain, specifically the development of the gradable adjectives mycket ‘much’ and lite ‘little’ into quantifiers.
