Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change
Author:   D. Gary Miller (, Professor of Classics and Linguistics, University of Florida)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   488
Publication Date:   21 March 2002
Format:   Hardback
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Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change


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Author:   D. Gary Miller (, Professor of Classics and Linguistics, University of Florida)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.797kg
ISBN:  

9780198299608


ISBN 10:   0198299605
Pages:   488
Publication Date:   21 March 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Case Checking and Accord 2: Tense and Nonfinite Clauses 3: Null Subjects and Control 4: Plain and Conjugated Infinitives 5: West Greenlandic 6: Small Clauses and ECM 7: The ECM Innovation in English 8: Infinitives in Older English 9: The -Ing Participle and Perception Complements 10: English Gerundials 11: History of English Gerundials 12: Infinitive, Gerundive, Participle Primary Sources Editions of Older English Texts

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strongly recommend[ed] to linguistics working on subject-case licensing and finiteness as well as to those interested in historical syntactic change in finite/non-finite constructions. Linguist List This book presents a thorough, interesting, and informative work from a novel perspective. It presents an encompassing study of nonfinite structures. Linguist List The book is an invaluable contribution to both syntactic theoreticians and historical linguists. Linguist List


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D. Gary Miller is Professor of Classics and Linguistics at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1969 with a dissertation on Studies in Some Forms of the Genitive Singular in Indo-European. He has authored some forty articles on Indo-European, Classical, and General Linguistics. His books include Homer and the Ionian Epic Tradition (1982), Improvisation, Typology, Culture, and 'The New Orthodoxy': How 'Oral' is Homer? (1982), Complex Verb Formation (1993), and Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge (1994).

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