The breakup of Old English to-infinitive: Causes and consequences

dc.contributor.author	Jarad, Najib Ismail
dc.date.accessioned	2017-08-24T08:39:16Z
dc.date.available	2017-08-24T08:39:16Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.description.abstract	The main goal of this paper is to account for the recategorisation of the Old English to-infinitive and the consequent rise of for before the Middle English to-infinitive. We argue that the loss of D feature has two consequences. The first consequence is that V+Inf-to-D movement was lost resulting in the break-up of the (morphological and) syntactic unity of the to-infinitive. The second consequence, a consequence of the first consequence, concerns the appearance of the so-called split infinitive, i.e. the development of a preverbal adverb, negation and object position. This crucial evidence marks the drift of the infinitive towards VP behaviour. Given that D was lost in early Middle English (i.e. 1150-1200) and the split infinitive appeared in the 13th century, the paper concludes that the change from a PP to a TP status was gradual and not simultaneous with other changes.	pl_PL
dc.identifier.citation	Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 46.3 (2010), pp. 21-42	pl_PL
dc.identifier.issn	0081-6272
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10593/19135
dc.language.iso	eng	pl_PL
dc.publisher	Adam Mickiewicz University	pl_PL
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	pl_PL
dc.title	The breakup of Old English to-infinitive: Causes and consequences	pl_PL
dc.type	Artykuł	pl_PL

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