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The Rise of the To-Infinitive
Bettelou Los
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Description for The Rise of the To-Infinitive
paperback. Describes the historical emergence and spread of the to-infinitive in English. This book shows that to + infinitive emerged from a reanalysis of the preposition to plus a deverbal nominalization, which spread first to purpose clauses, then to nonfinite environments. It challenges the reasoning that infinitives must have been nouns in Old English. Num Pages: 354 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 20. Weight in Grams: 568.
This book describes the historical emergence and spread of the to-infinitive in English. It shows that to + infinitive emerged from a reanalysis of the preposition to plus a deverbal nominalization, which spread first to purpose clauses, then to other nonfinite environments. The book challenges the traditional reasoning that infinitives must have been nouns in Old English because they inflected for dative case and can follow prepositions. Dr Los shows that, even as early as Old English, the to-infinitive was established in most of the environments in which it is found today. She argues that its spread was largely due ... Read more
This book describes the historical emergence and spread of the to-infinitive in English. It shows that to + infinitive emerged from a reanalysis of the preposition to plus a deverbal nominalization, which spread first to purpose clauses, then to other nonfinite environments. The book challenges the traditional reasoning that infinitives must have been nouns in Old English because they inflected for dative case and can follow prepositions. Dr Los shows that, even as early as Old English, the to-infinitive was established in most of the environments in which it is found today. She argues that its spread was largely due ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199208739
SKU
V9780199208739
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About Bettelou Los
Bettelou Los is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. She graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 1986 and has since held teaching and research positions at the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit, the University of Nijmegen and other colleges of higher education. She participates in the research program The Diachrony of Complex Predicates in West ... Read more
Reviews for The Rise of the To-Infinitive
...a great achievement, highlighting the systematic distribution of OE to-infinitives described in terms of argument structure, as well as providing solid arguments that to-infinitives were in competition with subjunctive that-clauses, with the former replacing the latter. Moreover this book is written in a manner accessible to both philologists and theoretical linguists, and hence provides a basis for everyone interested in ... Read more