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Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects: A Syntactic Analysis of the Romance Languages
Author(s): Guido Mensching (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: 20 July 2000
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195133048
- ISBN-13: 9780195133042
Book Description
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.
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Review
This book is bound to become a reference text for anyone interested in the properties of infinitival clauses in Romance. It is a valuable source of data and also advances our understanding of an interesting class of phenomena that before this book did not receive enough attention in the literature. ― Journal of Linguistics
