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Subject and infinitive in Portuguese and Spanish

Constrastive and corpus-based research on Portuguese and Spanish infinitival constructions with specified, nominative subjects in adverbial clauses. Factors as the degree of authonomy of the subordinate clause, thematic coherence and the degree of verbality of the infinitive and propostionality of the subordinate clause receive special attention in a functional linguistic framework.

Date:1 Oct 2008 →  30 Sep 2012
Keywords:subject, (Inflected) Infinitive, Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics, Adverbial Clauses
Disciplines:Theory and methodology of linguistics, Language studies, Linguistics, Literary studies, Other languages and literary studies