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Nonfinite Inquiries : Materials for a Comparative Study of Nonfinite Predicative Domains / Alain Rouveret.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; 138Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (XVII, 465 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110769159
  • 9783110769395
  • 9783110769289
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword -- I Questions about nonfiniteness -- 1 Finiteness, tense, person agreement -- 2 How nonfinite domains differ from finite ones -- 3 Crossing the verb/noun border -- 4 A program -- II Key concepts and emerging issues in recent syntactic theorizing -- Introduction -- 5 Categories and their labels -- 6 Categories and their features: Inheritance and the C-T connection -- 7 The licensing of overt and controlled subjects -- 8 The semantics of nonfinite tense -- III The morphosyntax of English gerund forms -- Introduction -- 9 The syntax/morphology interface -- 10 Transcategorial items, mixed projections -- 11 A preliminary classification of gerund phrases -- 12 Lexical approaches to trancategoriality -- 13 Syntactic accounts of transcategoriality -- 14 Conclusion -- IV The syntax of English gerund clauses -- Introduction -- 15 Some semantic properties of gerund domains -- 16 How gerund constructions differ from one another -- 17 A labeling analysis of Acc-ing constructions -- 18 A category-switching analysis of Poss-ing constructions -- 19 A note on nominal gerund constructions -- 21 Summary -- V The morphosyntax of verbo-nominal heads in contemporary Welsh -- Introduction -- 22 The two uses of the verb-noun -- 23 The internal structure of VNP projections -- 24 Aspectual properties of Welsh verb-nouns -- 25 Conclusion -- VI The syntax of Welsh verbo-nominal clauses -- Introduction -- 26 i-initial verbo-nominal clauses -- 27 Bod-initial constructions -- 28 Labeling Welsh VN-clauses -- 29 The tense of VN-clauses -- 30 Conclusion -- VII Verbo-nominal root clauses in Middle Welsh -- Introduction -- 31 Some remarkable data -- 32 A short excursus on unergative VNs -- 33 Against the nominal analysis -- 34 The ergativity of verbo-nominal root and embedded clauses -- 35 Making the ergative analysis explicit -- 36 Coexistence of ergative-absolutive and nominative-accusative patterns -- 37 The interpretation of tense -- 38 Conclusion -- 39 Appendix: Proposals for the analysis of ergative structures -- VIII The syntax of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese -- 40 Introduction -- 41 Three asymmetries -- 42 The non-existence of an auxiliary/main verb asymmetry -- 43 The case licensing of IIC subjects -- 44 The eventive/stative divide -- 45 The factive/nonfactive asymmetry and the categorial identity of IICs -- 46 Labeling IICs -- 47 Inflected/uninflected infinitive clauses with a null subject -- 48 Conclusion -- 49 Appendix: Verb classes in European Portuguese -- IX Extraposition phenomena -- Introduction -- 50 The extraposition of embedded finite clauses -- 51 Why Welsh VN-clauses obligatorily extrapose, why Welsh VN-phrases cannot -- 52 A principled approach to extraposition -- 53 Why gerund clauses don’t extrapose -- 54 Why Portuguese inflected infinitive structures sometimes extrapose, sometimes don’t -- 55 Conclusion -- X The Latin ab urbe condita construction -- Introduction -- 56 Domain of study -- 57 Basic syntactic and semantic properties of the DPC -- 58 The analysis of passive past participles: A few landmarks -- 59 DPCs as mixed projections -- 60 Agreement and case in DPCs -- 61 The origin of linguistic variation -- 62 Conclusion -- XI Facts and events, attitudinal objects and states of affairs -- Introduction -- 63 Do gerund clauses name facts? -- 64 Verbo-nominal clauses -- 65 On attitudinal objects -- 66 Inflected infinitive constructions -- 67 Taking stock -- XII Conclusion: The many faces of defectiveness -- Introduction -- 68 Semantics -- 69 Morphosyntax -- 70 Syntax -- 71 On defectiveness -- References -- Index
Summary: This study aims at developing a unified perspective on nonfiniteness, encompassing its morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects. It puts the emphasis on clause types distinct from standard infinitives (gerund clauses, Celtic verbo-nominal structures, Portuguese inflected infinitives, Latin dominant participle constructions) and takes advantage of the most recent developments in syntactic theory. The notions of defectiveness and completeness, the inheritance hypothesis, the labeling requirement, the syntactic definition of lexical categories, once combined together, appear to make accessible tighter and more elegant analyses than previous accounts.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword -- I Questions about nonfiniteness -- 1 Finiteness, tense, person agreement -- 2 How nonfinite domains differ from finite ones -- 3 Crossing the verb/noun border -- 4 A program -- II Key concepts and emerging issues in recent syntactic theorizing -- Introduction -- 5 Categories and their labels -- 6 Categories and their features: Inheritance and the C-T connection -- 7 The licensing of overt and controlled subjects -- 8 The semantics of nonfinite tense -- III The morphosyntax of English gerund forms -- Introduction -- 9 The syntax/morphology interface -- 10 Transcategorial items, mixed projections -- 11 A preliminary classification of gerund phrases -- 12 Lexical approaches to trancategoriality -- 13 Syntactic accounts of transcategoriality -- 14 Conclusion -- IV The syntax of English gerund clauses -- Introduction -- 15 Some semantic properties of gerund domains -- 16 How gerund constructions differ from one another -- 17 A labeling analysis of Acc-ing constructions -- 18 A category-switching analysis of Poss-ing constructions -- 19 A note on nominal gerund constructions -- 21 Summary -- V The morphosyntax of verbo-nominal heads in contemporary Welsh -- Introduction -- 22 The two uses of the verb-noun -- 23 The internal structure of VNP projections -- 24 Aspectual properties of Welsh verb-nouns -- 25 Conclusion -- VI The syntax of Welsh verbo-nominal clauses -- Introduction -- 26 i-initial verbo-nominal clauses -- 27 Bod-initial constructions -- 28 Labeling Welsh VN-clauses -- 29 The tense of VN-clauses -- 30 Conclusion -- VII Verbo-nominal root clauses in Middle Welsh -- Introduction -- 31 Some remarkable data -- 32 A short excursus on unergative VNs -- 33 Against the nominal analysis -- 34 The ergativity of verbo-nominal root and embedded clauses -- 35 Making the ergative analysis explicit -- 36 Coexistence of ergative-absolutive and nominative-accusative patterns -- 37 The interpretation of tense -- 38 Conclusion -- 39 Appendix: Proposals for the analysis of ergative structures -- VIII The syntax of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese -- 40 Introduction -- 41 Three asymmetries -- 42 The non-existence of an auxiliary/main verb asymmetry -- 43 The case licensing of IIC subjects -- 44 The eventive/stative divide -- 45 The factive/nonfactive asymmetry and the categorial identity of IICs -- 46 Labeling IICs -- 47 Inflected/uninflected infinitive clauses with a null subject -- 48 Conclusion -- 49 Appendix: Verb classes in European Portuguese -- IX Extraposition phenomena -- Introduction -- 50 The extraposition of embedded finite clauses -- 51 Why Welsh VN-clauses obligatorily extrapose, why Welsh VN-phrases cannot -- 52 A principled approach to extraposition -- 53 Why gerund clauses don’t extrapose -- 54 Why Portuguese inflected infinitive structures sometimes extrapose, sometimes don’t -- 55 Conclusion -- X The Latin ab urbe condita construction -- Introduction -- 56 Domain of study -- 57 Basic syntactic and semantic properties of the DPC -- 58 The analysis of passive past participles: A few landmarks -- 59 DPCs as mixed projections -- 60 Agreement and case in DPCs -- 61 The origin of linguistic variation -- 62 Conclusion -- XI Facts and events, attitudinal objects and states of affairs -- Introduction -- 63 Do gerund clauses name facts? -- 64 Verbo-nominal clauses -- 65 On attitudinal objects -- 66 Inflected infinitive constructions -- 67 Taking stock -- XII Conclusion: The many faces of defectiveness -- Introduction -- 68 Semantics -- 69 Morphosyntax -- 70 Syntax -- 71 On defectiveness -- References -- Index

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This study aims at developing a unified perspective on nonfiniteness, encompassing its morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects. It puts the emphasis on clause types distinct from standard infinitives (gerund clauses, Celtic verbo-nominal structures, Portuguese inflected infinitives, Latin dominant participle constructions) and takes advantage of the most recent developments in syntactic theory. The notions of defectiveness and completeness, the inheritance hypothesis, the labeling requirement, the syntactic definition of lexical categories, once combined together, appear to make accessible tighter and more elegant analyses than previous accounts.

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