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Prepositional Infinitives in Romance - A Usage-based Approach to Syntactic Change (Paperback)
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Prepositional Infinitives in Romance - A Usage-based Approach to Syntactic Change (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Historical Linguistics, 3
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This book examines the present-day distribution and diachronic
evolution of a set of infinitival structures in Spanish, Portuguese
and Romanian, making use of extensive corpus data and investigating
how pragmatic factors and usage patterns interact with syntax.
After a contrastive account of the patterns of clausal
subordination in Latin and Romance, the rise of prepositional
infinitives is traced through the documented history of the three
languages, revealing astonishing parallels in their development.
The analysis of the data shows how cognitive principles such as
reanalysis and entrenchment combine with parameters such as
relevance and usage frequency to cause syntactic change. Beyond
providing a genuine explanation for the observed processes in the
Romance languages, this study offers new evidence for the existence
of language-independent, cross-linguistically applicable principles
and mechanisms in language change.
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