The Grammar of English Infinitives with Czech Comparison

ISBN-13: 9783631885093 / Angielski

Peter Kosta; Michaela Čakányová

Opis

The infinitival particle to carries the feature irrealis and is one of the irrealis moods.Infinitives are of different sizes: control infinitive is bi-clausal, raising infinitive is mono-clausal and there are two types/sizes of ECM infinitives.Bigger infinitives are more independent and form phases that often express irrealis.

Spis treści

Michaela Cakányová- Table of Contents- Introduction: Survey of Chapter Contents- Syntax of the Infinitival Particle to- Verbal Semantics & the Form of the Clausal Complement- Structural Realizations of Infinitival Semantics- Distribution and Sizes of Non-finite Clauses- Bare Infinitives as Special Complements- Phasehood of Infinitives- Conclusion- Bibliography- Appendices

O autorze

Michaela Cakányová teaches and researches in the areas of morphosyntax and syntax in the Department of English and American Studies, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Her research interests also include morphology, semantics, and philosophy of language.