The rise of lexical subjects in English covert infinitives
This paper explores subjectness of the so-called covert infinitives in English. Control and raising-to-subject infinitives are known to have a covert or null subject; hence they are known as the covert infinitives. Recently, there is a debate whether these infinitives are still subject-less or have...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Social Sciences and Humanities Open |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291123002802 |