Add to ORKGEarly grammars of various languages exhibit what is generally known as "root " or "optional" infinitives1. These are main clauses containing uninflected verbal forms which often (though not always) allow subject drop. On the basis of continuity assumptions, recent research has implicitly or explicitly assimilated the empty subject of root infinitives to the adult PRO o
In this paper we will concentrate on the semantic properties of root infinitives (RIs) in Dutch and ...
For adult registers of English, it was Akmajian (1984) who first drew attention to the grammatical p...
The prescriptive infinitive can be found in the North Germanic languages, is very old, and yet is la...
This paper provides a unified account of root infinitives, determiner drop and null subjects in earl...
The literature on the root infinitive stage, a period of acquisition during which the child produces...
The English conventional infinitive clauses have either overt or covert subjects. Previous analyses ...
It is well known that children acquiring Germanic and Romance languages go through an early stage at...
The aim of the present paper is to determine which early non-finite verbal form is the Root Infiniti...
In this paper we examine the relation between the quantity and quality of the adult input to the chi...
The ‘root infinitive’ phenomenon in child speech is known from major languages such as Dutch. In thi...
When children acquiring English begin to form sentences at around two years old, they produce both i...
In this paper we will argue that evidence from Russian child language favors an analysis of (adult) ...
This paper discusses the phenomenon of root infinitives (RIs) in child language, focussing on a dist...
This dissertation is primarily about purpose clauses in English, those apparently infinitival expres...
English gerunds and infinitives are often treated as nearly equivalent ways of using verb phrases as...
In this paper we will concentrate on the semantic properties of root infinitives (RIs) in Dutch and ...
For adult registers of English, it was Akmajian (1984) who first drew attention to the grammatical p...
The prescriptive infinitive can be found in the North Germanic languages, is very old, and yet is la...
This paper provides a unified account of root infinitives, determiner drop and null subjects in earl...
The literature on the root infinitive stage, a period of acquisition during which the child produces...
The English conventional infinitive clauses have either overt or covert subjects. Previous analyses ...
It is well known that children acquiring Germanic and Romance languages go through an early stage at...
The aim of the present paper is to determine which early non-finite verbal form is the Root Infiniti...
In this paper we examine the relation between the quantity and quality of the adult input to the chi...
The ‘root infinitive’ phenomenon in child speech is known from major languages such as Dutch. In thi...
When children acquiring English begin to form sentences at around two years old, they produce both i...
In this paper we will argue that evidence from Russian child language favors an analysis of (adult) ...
This paper discusses the phenomenon of root infinitives (RIs) in child language, focussing on a dist...
This dissertation is primarily about purpose clauses in English, those apparently infinitival expres...
English gerunds and infinitives are often treated as nearly equivalent ways of using verb phrases as...
In this paper we will concentrate on the semantic properties of root infinitives (RIs) in Dutch and ...
For adult registers of English, it was Akmajian (1984) who first drew attention to the grammatical p...
The prescriptive infinitive can be found in the North Germanic languages, is very old, and yet is la...