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T1 The functional structure of the sentence: evidence from non-finite clauses
A1 Ojea López, Ana Isabel
K1 Gramática comparada
AB Non-finite clauses are sentential constituents with a verbal head that lacks a morphologicalspecification for tense and agreement. In this paper I contend that these clauses are defectivenot only morphologically but also syntactically, in the sense that they all lack some of thefunctional categories that make up a full sentence. In particular I argue that to-infinitiveclauses, gerund(ive) clauses and participial clauses differ among themselves, and with respectto other subordinate clauses, in the degree of structural defectiveness they display, whichgoes from the almost complete functional structure of the infinitive to the maximal degreeof syntactic truncation of participial clauses (analyzed here as verbal small clauses). I alsoshow the significant parallelism that exists in this respect between English and Spanishnon-finite clauses, pointing to the implication this may have for a cross-linguistic approachto the cartography of syntactic structures.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 0211-5913
YR 2013
FD 2013
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RD 23-nov-2024