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The inflected infinitive in the Romance languages.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The inflected infinitive in the Romance languages./
Author:	Scida, Emily Elizabeth.
Description:	213 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-04, Section: A, page: 1141.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-04A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9831079
ISBN:	0591840081

The inflected infinitive in the Romance languages.
Scida, Emily Elizabeth.

The inflected infinitive in the Romance languages. - 213 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-04, Section: A, page: 1141.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 1998.

The Portuguese inflected infinitive has been considered an anomaly among the Romance languages. While Portuguese shows a widespread use and distribution of the infinitive with verbal inflection, no other major Romance language possesses an equivalent form. Two issues discussed in this thesis are: the syntactic distribution of the inflected infinitive, and its origin and development.

ISBN: 0591840081Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

The inflected infinitive in the Romance languages.
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520 $a The Portuguese inflected infinitive has been considered an anomaly among the Romance languages. While Portuguese shows a widespread use and distribution of the infinitive with verbal inflection, no other major Romance language possesses an equivalent form. Two issues discussed in this thesis are: the syntactic distribution of the inflected infinitive, and its origin and development.
520 $a Using the theoretical framework of Relational Grammar, I examine the syntactic distribution of the inflected infinitive in Portuguese, and I propose a general condition on the use of the inflected infinitive which correctly predicts the precise range of environments where the inflected infinitive will be acceptable and others where it will be excluded. The condition proposed is: the inflected infinitive must be the final predicate of its clause. This entails that the inflected infinitive will be excluded from monoclausal structures in which it is a non-final predicate, and that it will be acceptable in certain biclausal constructions where it is the final predicate of its clause. In contrast to previous studies, my analysis offers a unified account consisting of one concise condition restricting its use which predicts all possible occurrences of the inflected infinitive.
520 $a The second issue discussed is the origin and development of the inflected infinitive. Taking into account the theories proposed to explain its origin, several facts from Latin and Romance point to the Latin imperfect subjunctive as the origin of the inflected infinitive. My study provides a precise comparison of the forms and syntactic distribution of the imperfect subjunctive and the inflected infinitive to determine in which contexts they correspond, and reveals an overall pattern of correspondence, especially in clauses expressing purpose. I also study the distribution of the inflected infinitive in other Romance languages (Sardinian, Old Neapolitan, Old Leonese, and Mirandese), which provides further support for the imperfect subjunctive theory. The existence of inflected gerunds and participles demonstrates that speakers must in fact have reanalyzed the imperfect subjunctive as an infinitive with verbal inflection, creating the conditions for this pattern to spread to other non-finite forms.
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