Studies in Historical Linguistics 3
Prepositional Infinitives in Romance
A Usage-Based Approach to Syntactic Change
von
Kim Schulte
1. Auflage
Prepositional Infinitives in Romance – Schulte
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Peter Lang Bern 2007
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ISBN 978 3 03911 327 9
Inhaltsverzeichnis: Prepositional Infinitives in Romance – Schulte
Contents
Acknowledgements
7
List of gloss abbreviations
9
Preface
11
Brief résumé of chapters
13
Chapter 1
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
Motivation and theoretical parameters
Why Romance?
The choice of languages examined
Theoretical parameters
Pragmatic causation in syntax
Statistical analysis: reasons and methods
17
17
19
26
48
55
Chapter 2
2.1
2.2
2.3
From Latin to Romance
Finite subordination
In nitival subordination
Non-in nitival nominal dependent
clauses in Latin
The fate of Latin nominal dependent
structures in Romance
Conclusion
69
70
79
2.4
2.5
Chapter 3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
Chapter 4
4.1
The in nitive in Spanish and Portuguese today
Non-overt subjects of in nitival clauses
In nitives with overt subject in Spanish
Overt subject marking in Portuguese
in nitival clauses
The in nitive: nominal or verbal?
Diachronic development of the in nitive
in Spanish
Prepositional and non-prepositional in nitives
87
99
118
121
121
150
170
190
209
209
Contents
6
4.2
4.3
4.4
Chapter 5
5.1
5.2
Chapter 6
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
Chapter 7
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
Prepositional in nitives
In nitival clauses and their nite counterparts
Discussion of the Spanish diachronic data
212
230
240
Portuguese and Spanish developments compared 253
Similarities and differences in diachronic
development
253
OSIs and the in ected in nitive
263
The in nitive in Romanian
The present-day situation
Synchronic use of prepositional in nitives
Diachronic development of the
prepositional in nitive
Pragmatic causation
Conclusion
Relevance and reanalysis: prepositional
complementizers
The emergence of prepositional complementizers
Subsequent development of prepositional
complementizers
Diachronic statistical development of de
and a
Ongoing grammaticalization of para/pra
in Portuguese
Conclusion
283
283
303
308
317
327
329
329
334
339
342
344
Conclusion
347
References
351
Appendix A
Spanish texts
363
Appendix B
Portuguese texts
371
Appendix C
Romanian texts
383
Index
399