The Grammar of English Infinitives with Czech Comparison

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-631-88509-3
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: Potsdam Linguistic Investigations

This book aims to clarify some puzzles that have been topical in formal linguistics for many decades now. It concerns the status of English and, for comparison, Czech infinitives, as opposed to finite clauses and marginally also gerunds. The book systematically demonstrates the functional (meaning) and syntactic (form) properties of infinitives. It highlights the essential properties common to all infinitives, their core structure in Logical Form (LF) and their relation to an irrealis feature. It also investigates the particularities of the various infinitival constructions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

¿Akányová, Michaela

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kosta, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Michaela Cakányová- Table of Contents- Introduction: Survey of Chapter Contents- Syntax of the Infinitival Particle to- Verbal Semantics & the Form of the Clausal Complement- Structural Realizations of Infinitival Semantics- Distribution and Sizes of Non-finite Clauses- Bare Infinitives as Special Complements- Phasehood of Infinitives- Conclusion- Bibliography- Appendices

Über Autor(innen)

Michaela Cakányová teaches and researches in the areas of morphosyntax and syntax in the Department of English and American Studies, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Her research interests also include morphology, semantics, and philosophy of language.