Infinitive Constructions With Specified Subjects

A Syntactic Analysis of the Romance Languages

By: Guido Mensching

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Most Romance languages permit the overt realization of the grammatical subject in infinitive clauses in a considerable number of configurations. Mensching has the following goals: to describe systematically Romance infinitive constructions with specified subjects, taking into account diachronic and dialectical varieties; and then to interpret these facts within a generative framework, examining how overt subjects in infinitive clauses are licensed and what determines their case and position. His findings call for a thorough revision of the principles that have been assumed for analysing the Romance languages. Mensching uses eight Romance languages in his comparisons, among them Italian, Sardinian, Romanian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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This book is bound to become a reference text for anyone interested in the properties of infinitival clauses in Romance. It is a valuable source of data and also advances our understanding of an interesting class of phenomena that before this book did not receive enough attention in the literature. Journal of Linguistics

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Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 3
The Basic Data	p. 15
Foundations of Romance Syntax	p. 39
Romance Infinitives with Specified Subjects: The State of the Art	p. 67
The Position of Subjects in Romance Infinitive Clauses	p. 101
Case Assignment to the Subject of Infinitive Clauses	p. 129
A Minimalist Interpretation	p. 179
Notes	p. 207
References	p. 233
Index	p. 255
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