Nonfinite Inquiries

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Nonfinite Inquiries is written by Alain Rouveret and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110769395 (ISBN 10) and 9783110769395 (ISBN 13).

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.