For adult registers of English, it was Akmajian (1984) who first drew attention to the grammatical phenomenon of infinitival constructions used in matrix contexts, which he dubbed “Mad Magazine sentences ” (see also Lambrecht 1990). The 1990s have seen focused interest on a at first glance simila
The present paper is to explore some aspects of infinitival complements in English in terms of inves...
Infinitive consequential constructions can be divided according to a few criteria – primarily into p...
The English nominative and infinitive pattern (NCI), consisting of a passive utterance, cognition or...
Early grammars of various languages exhibit what is generally known as "root " or "op...
The Root Infinitive (RI) stage of linguistic development is a well-known phenomenon found in many ch...
In English, verbs can take different forms, such as verb forms related to the use of tenses, the -in...
In this paper we examine the relation between the quantity and quality of the adult input to the chi...
The literature on the root infinitive stage, a period of acquisition during which the child produces...
This dissertation is primarily about purpose clauses in English, those apparently infinitival expres...
1. Introduction In this paper, I deal with the English infinitival constructions as verbal complemen...
There are at least six positions at which Gothic infinitives may be attached: (1) VI$\sp{\prime\prim...
This study investigated the form of infinitival sentences produced by young children and their knowl...
This paper describes infinitives (and infinitive-like forms) in a range of languages and argues that...
This article first provides empirical evidence from the 100-million-word British National corpus in ...
Infinitival structures in root contexts are a property of colloquial registers in many languages. Th...
The present paper is to explore some aspects of infinitival complements in English in terms of inves...
Infinitive consequential constructions can be divided according to a few criteria – primarily into p...
The English nominative and infinitive pattern (NCI), consisting of a passive utterance, cognition or...
Early grammars of various languages exhibit what is generally known as "root " or "op...
The Root Infinitive (RI) stage of linguistic development is a well-known phenomenon found in many ch...
In English, verbs can take different forms, such as verb forms related to the use of tenses, the -in...
In this paper we examine the relation between the quantity and quality of the adult input to the chi...
The literature on the root infinitive stage, a period of acquisition during which the child produces...
This dissertation is primarily about purpose clauses in English, those apparently infinitival expres...
1. Introduction In this paper, I deal with the English infinitival constructions as verbal complemen...
There are at least six positions at which Gothic infinitives may be attached: (1) VI$\sp{\prime\prim...
This study investigated the form of infinitival sentences produced by young children and their knowl...
This paper describes infinitives (and infinitive-like forms) in a range of languages and argues that...
This article first provides empirical evidence from the 100-million-word British National corpus in ...
Infinitival structures in root contexts are a property of colloquial registers in many languages. Th...
The present paper is to explore some aspects of infinitival complements in English in terms of inves...
Infinitive consequential constructions can be divided according to a few criteria – primarily into p...
The English nominative and infinitive pattern (NCI), consisting of a passive utterance, cognition or...