: Anna-Lena Wiklund
: The Syntax of Tenselessness Tense/Mood/Aspect-agreeing Infinitivals
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110197839
: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 172.70
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: Übrige Germanische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
: English
: 238
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The Syntax of Tenselessnessis an in-depth investigation of verb-verb agreement phenomena in Swedish, including pseudocoordinations of the formJohn started and wrote'John started writing' and double participles of the formJohn had been-able written'John had been able to write'. The claim is that the relevant constructions involve (disguised) infinitivals that agree with the matrix clause in tense/mood/aspect, a surface reflex of restructuring. The book is an important contribution to the syntax of infinitivals, restructuring, and agreement in natural language.


Anna-Lena Wiklund, University of Tromsø, Norway.

Frontmatter1
Contents9
Chapter 1 Introduction13
Chapter 2 Properties of TMA-copying and participle copying27
Chapter 3 Copying and tense49
Chapter 4 Copying as a restructuring effect79
Chapter 5 Pseudocoordination is TMA-copying105
Chapter 6 Pseudocoordinating verbs are light verbs137
Chapter 7 Copying169
Chapter 8 The syntax of tenselessness187
Backmatter195