Infinitival syntax : infinitivus pro participio as a repair strategy / Tanja Schmid.

This monograph offers a new analysis of West Germanic 'Infinitivus Pro Participio' (IPP) constructions, within the framework of Optimality Theory. IPP constructions have long been problematic for syntactic theory, because a bare infinitive is preferred over the expected past participle. Th...

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Main Author: Schmid, Tanja
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2005.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 79.
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