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3 Crossing the verb/noun border

From the book Nonfinite Inquiries

  • Alain Rouveret
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110769289-003
© 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
From the book
Nonfinite Inquiries
Nonfinite Inquiries

Chapters in this book (86)

Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Foreword
I Questions about nonfiniteness
1 Finiteness, tense, person agreement
2 How nonfinite domains differ from finite ones
3 Crossing the verb/noun border
4 A program
II Key concepts and emerging issues in recent syntactic theorizing
Introduction
5 Categories and their labels
6 Categories and their features: Inheritance and the C-T connection
7 The licensing of overt and controlled subjects
8 The semantics of nonfinite tense
III The morphosyntax of English gerund forms
Introduction
9 The syntax/morphology interface
10 Transcategorial items, mixed projections
11 A preliminary classification of gerund phrases
12 Lexical approaches to trancategoriality
13 Syntactic accounts of transcategoriality
14 Conclusion
IV The syntax of English gerund clauses
Introduction
15 Some semantic properties of gerund domains
16 How gerund constructions differ from one another
17 A labeling analysis of Acc-ing constructions
18 A category-switching analysis of Poss-ing constructions
19 A note on nominal gerund constructions
21 Summary
V The morphosyntax of verbo-nominal heads in contemporary Welsh
Introduction
22 The two uses of the verb-noun
23 The internal structure of VNP projections
24 Aspectual properties of Welsh verb-nouns
25 Conclusion
VI The syntax of Welsh verbo-nominal clauses
Introduction
26 i-initial verbo-nominal clauses
27 Bod-initial constructions
28 Labeling Welsh VN-clauses
29 The tense of VN-clauses
30 Conclusion
VII Verbo-nominal root clauses in Middle Welsh
Introduction
31 Some remarkable data
32 A short excursus on unergative VNs
33 Against the nominal analysis
34 The ergativity of verbo-nominal root and embedded clauses
35 Making the ergative analysis explicit
36 Coexistence of ergative-absolutive and nominative-accusative patterns
37 The interpretation of tense
38 Conclusion
39 Appendix: Proposals for the analysis of ergative structures
VIII The syntax of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese
40 Introduction
41 Three asymmetries
42 The non-existence of an auxiliary/main verb asymmetry
43 The case licensing of IIC subjects
44 The eventive/stative divide
45 The factive/nonfactive asymmetry and the categorial identity of IICs
46 Labeling IICs
47 Inflected/uninflected infinitive clauses with a null subject
48 Conclusion
49 Appendix: Verb classes in European Portuguese
IX Extraposition phenomena
Introduction
50 The extraposition of embedded finite clauses
51 Why Welsh VN-clauses obligatorily extrapose, why Welsh VN-phrases cannot
52 A principled approach to extraposition
53 Why gerund clauses don’t extrapose
54 Why Portuguese inflected infinitive structures sometimes extrapose, sometimes don’t
55 Conclusion
X The Latin ab urbe condita construction
Introduction
56 Domain of study
57 Basic syntactic and semantic properties of the DPC
58 The analysis of passive past participles: A few landmarks
59 DPCs as mixed projections
60 Agreement and case in DPCs
61 The origin of linguistic variation
62 Conclusion
XI Facts and events, attitudinal objects and states of affairs
Introduction
63 Do gerund clauses name facts?
64 Verbo-nominal clauses
65 On attitudinal objects
66 Inflected infinitive constructions
67 Taking stock
XII Conclusion: The many faces of defectiveness
Introduction
68 Semantics
69 Morphosyntax
70 Syntax
71 On defectiveness
References
Index
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