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The syntax and semantics of nonfinite forms
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The syntactic and semantic properties of nonfinite verb categories can best be understood in relation to and distinction from the corresponding properties of finite verb categories. In order to explore these issues, it is necessary to provide a crosslinguistically valid characterization of finiteness. Finiteness is a prototypical notion, understood in relation to a language-specific finite verb prototype; nonfiniteness is therefore understood in terms of degrees of deviation from this prototy...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Lowe, J
Grant:
ECF-2012-081
+ ill Hart Fund for Indo-Iranian
Philology at the University of Oxford
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Funding agency for:
Lowe, J
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ECF-2012-081
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Annual Reviews Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Annual Review of Linguistics Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Pages:
- 309-328
- Publication date:
- 2018-06-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-05-15
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2333-9691
- ISSN:
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2333-9683
- Source identifiers:
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847810
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- Copyright date:
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