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Author: Guido Mensching
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000-07-06
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0195343980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Anneli Meurman-Solin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-08-02
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0199860211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The unifying topic of this volume is the role of information structure, broadly conceived, as it interacts with the other levels of linguistic description, syntax, morphology, prosody, semantics and pragmatics.
Author: Anna Laura Lepschy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This inaugural volume in a new series offers an overview of current research in Italian linguistics by specialists in Great Britiain. Topics range from the formation, present state and future prospects of Italian dialects, to the notion of 'standard' in the context of the European tradition. Further contributions cover the different strands of Renaissance Italian, the problem of language death and the presence of Italian as lingua franca in the Mediterranean area. Research into contemporary language includes gender issues in Italian lexicography and the ambivalent 'politically correct' forms referring to minorities. The volume concludes with studies on the translation of legal texts and on the status accorded to different languages within the European Union. The book will be invaluable for university students of Italian or of linguistics and will provide a comprehensive survey for all interested in the Italian language and its history.
Author: Yoo-Ki Kim
Publisher: Harvard Semitic Studies
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the tautological infinitive construction in Classical Biblical Hebrew in order to give a coherent and consistent explanation of its function.
Author: Thomas Egan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-06-29
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 940120554X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents a comprehensive guide to the way speakers of British English use infinitive and –ing clauses as verbal complements. It contains details of the non-finite complementation patterns of over 300 matrix verbs, with a particular emphasis on verbs that occur with more than one type of non-finite complement. Drawing upon data from the British National Corpus, the author shows that some of the views which are to be found in the existing literature on these sorts of clauses are in conflict with the evidence of actual usage. He also shows that there is actually much more regularity in this area than has often been taken to be the case. Moreover, this regularity is shown to be motivated by cognitive-functional factors. An appendix contains details of the relative frequency of all of the constructions dealt with in the study, together with an example of each of them. The book is of interest to language teachers as well as linguists, both theoretical and applied.
