The synchrony and diachrony of Romancce infinitives with nominative subjects
Infinitives are trivially considered to license PRO, a covert null-Case pronoun, which represents the understood subject of an infinitive complement. However, two Romance infinitive constructions deviate from this canonical pattern and have their subject position filled by a phonetically realised le...
Main Author: | Sitaridou, Ioanna |
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University of Manchester
2002
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507971 |
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