Bringing Purported Black Sheep into the Fold: Galician Inflected Infinitives and Puerto Rican Spanish Pre-Verbal Infinitival Subject Pronouns

Bringing Purported Black Sheep into the Fold: Galician Inflected Infinitives and Puerto Rican Spanish Pre-Verbal Infinitival Subject Pronouns

This work reports the results of quantitative, variationist analyses of two typologically unusual constructions in order to explore the grammatical conditioning of subject expression in non-finite clauses. Both constructions, Galician inflected infinitives and (Puerto Rican) Spanish preposed, nomina...

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Main Authors: Esther Brown, Javier Rivas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-06-01
Series:Languages
Subjects:
subject expression
non-finite clause
inflected infinitive
purpose clause
grammaticalization
constructions
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/4/2/40

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https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/4/2/40

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