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Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change


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This book investigates the precise nature of nonfinite structures and explores the ways in which they change. Gary Miller examines a broad range of structures, including traditional infinitives, gerunds, and participles, across different Indo-European (and some non-Indo-European) languages now and in the past.As structures which are nonfinite in some languages are not so in others, the question arises whether the concept 'nonfinite' has any meaning or explanatory power. In seeking an answer to this conundrum, the author shows that infinitives with subject person agreement, such as in West Greenlandic, Modern Greek, Portuguese, Welsh, and Hungarian, share properties with prototypical nonfinite formations. Professor Miller examines languages with morphologically marked tense on infinitives, including Ancient Greek and Latin, and Modern Turkish. He demonstrates that nonfinite structures that can be assigned non-structural (inherent or semantic) case differ systematically from those with either structural or no case.The book concludes with a substantial history of infinitives, gerunds, and participles in Old and Middle English, which reveals why and how nonfinite structures change and vary over time.Gary Miller¹s innovative theoretical reasoning and the wide range of evidence on which it is brought to bear make this book a considerable contribution to the understanding of grammatical change and its formal expression, as well as to the history of English.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1: Case Checking and Accord 2: Tense and Nonfinite Clauses 3: Null Subjects and Control 4: Plain and Conjugated Infinitives 5: West Greenlandic 6: Small Clauses and ECM 7: The ECM Innovation in English 8: Infinitives in Older English 9: The -Ing Participle and Perception Complements 10: English Gerundials 11: History of English Gerundials 12: Infinitive, Gerundive, Participle Primary Sources Editions of Older English Texts

About the Author :
D. Gary Miller is Professor of Classics and Linguistics at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1969 with a dissertation on Studies in Some Forms of the Genitive Singular in Indo-European. He has authored some forty articles on Indo-European, Classical, and General Linguistics. His books include Homer and the Ionian Epic Tradition (1982), Improvisation, Typology, Culture, and 'The New Orthodoxy': How 'Oral' is Homer? (1982), Complex Verb Formation (1993), and Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge (1994).

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strongly recommend[ed] to linguistics working on subject-case licensing and finiteness as well as to those interested in historical syntactic change in finite/non-finite constructions. Linguist List This book presents a thorough, interesting, and informative work from a novel perspective. It presents an encompassing study of nonfinite structures. Linguist List The book is an invaluable contribution to both syntactic theoreticians and historical linguists. Linguist List


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198299608
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 488
  • Spine Width: 31 mm
  • Width: 166 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0198299605
  • Publisher Date: 21 Mar 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 797 gr


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