The Rise of the To-Infinitive

ISBN: 9780199208739 出版年：2007 页码：352 Los, Bettelou Oxford University Press

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction PART II: THE TO-INFINITIVE AS GOAL 2. The Expression of Purpose in Old English 3. The to-infinitive as GOAL-argument PART III: THE TO-INFINITIVE AS THEME 4. Intention 5. Commanding and Permitting 6. Commissives PART IV: SYNTACTIC STATUS 7. Introduction 8. The Changing Status of Infinitival to PART V: CHANGES IN MIDDLE ENGLISH 9. The Rise of to-infinitival ECM 10. Innocent Bystander: The Loss of the Indefinite Pronoun man PART VI: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 11. Summary and Conclusions Appendix References Index