Gerunds vs. Infinitives in English: Not Meaning but Form

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angličtina
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Gerunds vs. Infinitives in English: Not Meaning but Form
Original language description
English gerunds and infinitives are often treated as nearly equivalent ways of using verb phrases as syntactic subjects and objects, even though this assumption is falsified by the actual grammatical patterns. Gerunds are indeed verb phrases that appearin all positions of freelyexpandable noun phrases, but infinitives and finite clauses, termed 'verbal clauses' in this study, actually never occur in noun phrase positions. What is shown here is that (i) verbal clauses that appear to be 'objects' of verbs are in clause-final position, rather than in the position of object noun phrases, and that (ii) initial verbal clauses that appear to be 'subjects' are in a pre-subject position where they bind a null expletive subject. The hypothesis in (ii) is testedand confirmed by showing that initial verbal clauses, in contrast to lexical noun phrase and gerunds, never occur in embedded or inverted subject positions. In this way, initial verbal clauses have the same distribution as other well-kno
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Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
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Article name in the collection
From Theory to Practice 2013: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Anglophone
ISBN
978-80-7454-450-7
ISSN
1805-9899
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Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
13-38
Publisher name
Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně
Place of publication
Zlín
Event location
Zlín
Event date
Sep 5, 2013
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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