English Marked Infinitive Expressing Realis Mood

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
English Marked Infinitive Expressing Realis Mood
Original language description
In the majority of cases, the English infinitive expresses “Irrealis”. A formal implementation of this general pattern is worked out in Wurmbrand (2012) and certain aspects are further analyzed in Čakányová and Emonds (2017). However, some English infinitives are clearly “Realis”. These exceptions to the rule include complementation of several categories of verbs and adjectives that have some distinct features. What all these categories seem to share is the way they get selected as complements of closed classes of elements. Also, the governing verbs or adjectives are −Agent. They are all truly exceptional to the vast number of irrealis infinitival uses. The paper argues that in the case of some verbs, they have a feature that requires the complement to be realis and this Ass(ertion) feature of the selecting category head, similar to Zubizaretta’s (2001) Assertion operator present in finite factive complements, overrides the irrealis feature of the infinitive.
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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