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Journal articles on the topic "Nominal infinitives"

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Miguel, Elena De. "Nominal Infinitives in Spanish: An Aspectual Constraint." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 41, no. 1 (March 1996): 29–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100020247.

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AbstractThe aim of this article is to provide an analysis of two types of Spanish infinitival constructions headed by a determiner. In an attempt to define the categorial status of the infinitive morpheme, it is proposed that there are two homophonous infinitival morphemes which project two different structures: one of them is inflectional in nature and projects clausal configurations; the other one is derivational in nature and projects nominal structures. This latter suffix carries an activity aspect and attaches only to aspectually compatible verbal stems. This proposal explains the different properties and contexts for the two structures analysed, and, more interestingly, provides an account for a number of data that remained unexplained in previous analyses.
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Gerasimenko, Natalia. "Challenges of typyfing nominal infinitive sentences in modern Russian." E3S Web of Conferences 210 (2020): 21003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202021021003.

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The present paper investigates nominal infinitive sentences in terms of their grammatical parsing. For this purpose, a structural-semantic method was applied. When performing structural analysis of a sentence, students often experience certain difficulties trying to distinguish its subject and predicate. The purpose of this work is to manage the challenges of defining subject and predicate in a sentence when learning Russian in school or university. Specifics of using an infinitive as a subject is substantiated; semantic groups of nouns that get in connection with infinitives are described. It was defined that in nominal infinitive sentences, the infinitive acts as a subject, while the noun performs a function of the main component of a copulative-nominative predicate. In most cases, an adjective relating to a noun that acts as a predicate is considered a part of that predicate. Nominal infinitive sentences have a limited group of special copulas functioning.
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Ibrahim, Hussaina. "THE NOMINAL ROLES OF GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES." PUPIL: International Journal of Teaching, Education and Learning 3, no. 1 (April 9, 2019): 181–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.20319/pijtel.2019.31.181188.

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Looyenga, Sietze. "A syntactic analysis of Dutch nominal infinitives." Linguistics in the Netherlands 9 (September 3, 1992): 173–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.9.17loo.

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Makeeva, Nadezhda, and Irina Ryabova. "“Infinitive” class 15 in Dabida." Language in Africa 1, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 183–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.37892/2686-8946-2020-1-4-183-198.

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The paper deals with the morphosyntactic properties of infinitives in the Dabida language. As in the majority of Bantu languages, Dabida infinitives are allocated to noun class 15 by virtue of their morphological structure, in particular, the nominal prefix ku-. Nevertheless, from the morphosyntactic point of view infi nitives demonstrate a number of nominal and verbal properties that reveal their dual nature. Although these properties are not usually attested in the same ku- form thus contrasting the two uses, there are, however, syntactic positions where both verbal and nominal features are exhibited at once.
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Werner, Martina. "Korpuslinguistische Perspektiven auf die sprachhistorische Entwicklung der nominalisierten Infinitive im Deutschen." Linguistik Online 102, no. 2 (May 27, 2020): 155–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.102.6829.

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Nominalized infinitives (NIs, such as (das) Lachen ‘(the) laughing’, (das) Um-die-Ecke-Wohnen lit. ʻ(the) around-the-corner-living’) are the morphologically most elaborated deverbal nominalization patterns without restrictions in present-day German. However, this was not the case in earlier stages of German. The article reconstructs the steps behind the increase in productivity of the NI since Old High German with the support of historical corpora from Old High, Middle High, Early New High, and present-day German. It will be shown that the increase in productivity is due to an interplay of morphology and syntax. Syntactically, NIs develop from the verbal infinitive together with a syncretism with the pre-Old High German nominal gerund. Morphologically, NIs replace -ung-derived nouns in order to form abstract nouns in Middle High German. In a further step, the morphological complexity of NIs increases, because syntagmata are nominalized, including the emergence of synthetic compounds. In a reverse development taking place from Middle High German onwards, nominalized infinitives can also get result-readings which coincides with pluralizability (such as das Schreiben ‘letter’ – die Schreiben ‘letters’).
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Cominetti, Federica, and Valentina Piunno. "Patterns of nominal infinitives. A comparative analysis of Italian and Spanish." Faits de Langues 48, no. 1 (2016): 227–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19589514-048-01-900000014.

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Malá, Marcela. "A Corpus-Based Diachronic Study of a Change in the Use of Non-Finite Clauses in Written English." Prague Journal of English Studies 6, no. 1 (July 26, 2017): 151–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2017-0009.

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AbstractOccasional notes in secondary literature suggest that there is a growing tendency to use non-finite clauses in written English. It is partly attributed to the fact that during the process of historical development the English finite verb has lost much of its dynamism and the nominal elements of predication, namely infinitives, participles and gerunds have gradually become semantically more important. This paper deals with the occurrences of non-finite clauses in the tagged Brown/Frown and LOB/F-LOB corpora, which are matching corpora of American English and British English respectively. The article looks at 1) the use of noun phrases followed by -ing participles, -ed participles and to-infinitives, 2) the use of -ing/-ed clauses with/without overt subordinators and 3) the occurrences of to-infinitive clauses. When the structural patterns 1), 2) and 3) were taken as wholes there was always an increase in the frequency of occurrence of non-finite clauses demonstrated by hundreds of examples in the Frown and F-LOB corpora. This may be considered significant since there is only a 30-year difference between the Brown/Frown and LOB/F-LOB corpora. The findings thus completely support the premise that when the perspective of the research is diachronic, in written English non-finite clauses are becoming increasingly prominent.
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Vanseveren, Sylvie. "Évolution linguistique et évolution de perspective en grammaire comparée des langues indo-européennes: le cas du «locatif sans désinence»." Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique, no. 34-35 (October 1, 2001): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.26034/tranel.2001.2546.

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This paper deals with the problem of the casual origin of the Greek infinitives in -men, -ein, with respect to the «endingless locative» and the «casus indefinitus» hypothesis. These assumptions can be connected with the progress made in the linguistic research especially on the nominal inflection, from a chronological and methodological point of view.
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Demske, Ulrike. "Nominalization and argument structure in Early New High German." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 27 (January 1, 2002): 67–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.27.2002.150.

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Recent work on argument selection couched in a lexical decomposition approach (Ehrich & Rapp 2000) postulates different linking properties for verbs and nouns, challenging current views on argument inheritance. In this paper, I show that the different behavior with respect to verbal and nominal linking observed for Present-Day German does not carry over to ung-nominals in Early New High German. Deverbal nouns and corresponding verbs rather behave alike with respect to argument linking. I shall argue that this change is motivated by the growing rift between ung-nominals and their verbal bases both focussing on different parts oftheir lexicosemantic structure in Present-Day German. Evidence for the verb-like behavior of ung-nominals in Early New High German comes from the regular meaning relation between verbs and corresponding derived nouns, the actional properties of event-denoting nouns, and the patterning of ung-nominals with nominalized infinitives. Even their syntactic behavior reflects the verbal character of ung-nominals during that period of the German language. The diachronic facts can be accounted for in a straightforward way once we adopt a lexical decomposition approach to argument selection.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Nominal infinitives"

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CIDADE, PAULO ROBERTO DA SILVA. "THE INFINITIVE NOMINALIZATION: A STUDY OF GERUNDIVE NOMINALIZATIONS AND DERIVED NOMINALS IN PORTUGUESE AND IN ENGLISH." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2013. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=23932@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
O objetivo deste estudo é contrastar as línguas portuguesa e inglesa no que diz respeito às nominalizações gerundivas e aos derivados nominais, uma vez que as gerundivas só ocorrem morfologicamente no inglês e têm grande previsibilidade semântica enquanto os derivados nominais apresentam variedade semântica, assim sendo de pouca previsibilidade (Chomsky, 1970). Com este objetivo foram selecionados dois livros escritos originalmente no inglês, de cada um dos quais aleatoriamente tomou-se um capítulo para servir de corpus para a investigação. A análise do corpus nos levou às seguintes conclusões: (a) no português, a equivalência para as gerundivas de ação do inglês é fundamentalmente o Infinitivo nominal; (b) para os nominais de ação, a equivalência é um substantivo deverbal; (c) diversas estruturas verbais são possíveis como equivalência no português para as gerundivas factuais; e (d) ao contrário do que se previa, também os derivados nominais apresentam grande previsibilidade de interpretação, configurando-se uma situação de polissemia sistemática.
The goal of this study is to investigate English and Portuguese with regard to gerundive nominalizations and derived nominals. Gerundive Nominalizations only occur in English and are regular and semantically predictable, while derived nominals are not regular and have a great range of semantic interpretations, therefore little predictability (Chomsky, 1970). In order to proceed to the contrastive study we selected two books originally written in English, from each of which a chapter was randomly taken to serve as a corpus for the analysis. Our analysis led to the following conclusions: (a) In Portuguese, the nominal infinitive is systematically used for the action gerundive structures of English; (b) for the action nominal, the Portuguese correspondence is a deverbal noun; (c) there are different verbal structures to represent factual gerundives in Portuguese; and (d) as an unexpected result, derived nominal do have semantic predictability, situation which could be considered as one of systematic polysemy.
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Varvara, Rossella. "Verbs as nouns: empirical investigations on event-denoting nominalizations." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1175499.

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In this thesis, I study the differences in form and interpretation presented by event-denoting nominalizations. Frequently, languages have more than one type of event nominalization, such as deverbal nouns derived by means of suxes (Italian mutamento / mutazione, ‘change’, ‘mutation’, or English assignment, explosion) and their corresponding verbal nouns, e.g. infinitives (il mutare, ‘the changing’) or gerunds (exploding). These are usually perceived as alternatives, since their semantic difference is not clearly understood by neither native speakers nor linguists. The aim of this work is to understand the rationale that leads us to choose one form instead of the other and to define the linguistic features involved. The hypothesis underlying the whole thesis is that different forms are never true synonyms and, thus, present some differences in use, distribution or meaning. In a first study, I explore the role of the base verb in the nominalization selection. I investigate if the various nominalizations are formed from different types of base verbs and which characteristics define their domain of application. By means of statistical modeling, I highlight how the transitivity of the base verb partially determines which nominalization is preferred. Moreover, I show that NIs are not used to make up for the lack of a corresponding EDN, refuting previous claims. Then, I move forward analyzing the cases in which both forms are derived from the same base and I try to understand if they differ in meaning. In the second study presented, I use collocation analysis to observe their semantic dissimilarities. With focus on a single syntactic pattern, I find out that nominal infinitives and deverbal nouns inherit only part of the base verb senses. The former usually prefer metaphorical and abstract senses, whereas the latter select more concrete and literal ones. Lastly, I use distributional semantic models to observe quantitatively the semantic shift of the two processes. I confirm the hypothesis that nominal infinitives are more transparent and more semantically regular than deverbal nouns, given their inflectional nature. The studies presented have been conducted on Italian and German; however, the findings are relevant for the general treatment of nominalizations and may be replicated for further languages. Overall, my work shows how quantitative analyses of corpus data can help us investigate problems that are hardly addressed by linguists introspection. Moreover, it includes in the study of nominalizations nominal infinitives, non-finite verbal forms which, contrary to English gerunds, have not received the attention they deserve.
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Laczo, Ewa. "Traduction d'un texte factuel : Une étude des changements structuraux des syntagmes nominaux, infinitivaux et participiaux." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-35358.

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This study is an analysis of the translation of a French text regarding the use of pesticides in agriculture. The French text has been translated into Swedish by the author of this paper. There have been some problems in producing an idiomatic translation in some cases. Some of the noun phrases, infinitival phrases and participle phrases were especially complicated to translate. The main purpose of this study is to analyse how these problems were solved in a communicative translation. The analytic framework is mainly based on the works of Eriksson (1997), Ingo (2007), Fredriksson (2011) and Säll (2004).       The French language has a tendency of using infinite phrases, participle phrases and long noun phrases. When translating into Swedish one needs to bear in mind that the finite verb, in the present and past tense, is far more used than the infinite and participle forms. Actions are for example often expressed with finite verbs in the Swedish language. When completing a main clause, you often use a subordinate clause in Swedish. In a French text it is more common to see an infinite phrase as a complement of a main clause.   Noun phrases with many words are often avoided in the Swedish language. As a result, Swedish texts can be shorter compared to French texts. The French language is also said to be more abstract than the Swedish language, because there is not so much semantic value in many of the French words compared to Swedish words. The result is that there can be more words in a French text than in the translated Swedish text. In some cases, you can omit words that are not necessary for the context.
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Oliveira, Inês da Conceição Pinto de. "Usos verbais e nominais do infinitivo em português europeu." Doctoral thesis, 2015. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/79080.

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Oliveira, Inês da Conceição Pinto de. "Usos verbais e nominais do infinitivo em português europeu." Tese, 2015. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/79080.

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PROCHÁZKOVÁ, Pavla. "Vyjadřování příčiny ve španělských právnických textech." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-85078.

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The thesis discusses the expressions of cause in Spanish and presents an analysis of the linguistics theme based on the Spanish legal texts. The fundamental aims of the thesis are to find the expressions of cause in the Spanish legal texts and to analyse it. The thesis is divided in the theoretical and the practical part. The theoretical part is focused on the linguistics characteristics of the legal texts and on the characteristics of the expressions of cause. The practical part presents an analysis of the expressions of cause based on one thousand of examples found in Spanish legal texts. The summary in Spanish is included.
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Books on the topic "Nominal infinitives"

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Kester, Ellen-Petra. Adnominal participles and infinitives in Germanic and Romance languages. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'orso, 1994.

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M, Khangishiev Zh. Imennye formy glagola v kumykskom i͡a︡zyke v sravnitelʹnom osveshchenii: Imena deĭstvii͡a︡ i infinitivy. Makhachkala: Izdatelʹsko-poligr. t͡s︡entr DGU, 1997.

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Formen der Textkohärenz: Nominalisierung als sententiale Anapher im Ostarmenischen. Tübingen: G. Narr, 1986.

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Spevak, Olga. Nominalization in Latin. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192866011.001.0001.

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Abstract This book is devoted to verbal nouns, defined as nouns which have a systematic correspondence with a clause structure. The book aims to contribute to the much-debated question of ‘abstract nouns’ in general and ‘verbal derivatives’ in particular by showing that syntactic parameters are useful for a better classification of what are traditionally called nomina actionis. It adopts a descriptive approach and it provides methods and criteria for identifying these nouns which retain some verbal properties and for distinguishing them from nouns with concrete reference. This distinction is important for a better understanding of Latin texts and for the presentation of these words in dictionaries. The book investigates the use of verbal nouns in various text types: narrative texts and technical treatises (rhetoric, architecture, and legal texts). It shows that verbal nouns, as well as gerunds, gerundives, participles in participial clauses, and also, partly, infinitives, are competing expressions with a low ‘sententiality’ that serve, to different extents, to condensate clausal expressions. They form a system in which the elements are partly overlapping and partly complementary. The fact that Latin does not have a verbal noun available for every verb should not be viewed as a ‘deficiency’, but as a facet of this complex system.
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Book chapters on the topic "Nominal infinitives"

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Looyenga, Sietze. "On the Internal Structure of Nominal Infinitives." In Linguistics in the Netherlands 1990, edited by Reineke Bok-Bennema and Peter Coopmans, 101–12. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110849998-013.

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Varvara, Rossella, and Roberto Zamparelli. "Competition Between Event-Denoting Deverbal Nouns and Nominal Infinitives in Italian." In Competition in Inflection and Word-Formation, 95–121. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02550-2_4.

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Pinkster, Harm. "Subordinate clauses filling an argument position." In The Oxford Latin Syntax, 52–236. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199230563.003.0015.

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Chapter 15 deals with subordinate clauses, both finite and non-finite, which function as argument of their governing verb (traditionally called complement clauses). A distinction is made between declarative, interrogative, and imperative subordinate clauses. They are discussed according to the various subordinating devices: subordinators (e.g. quod, ut), question particles, infinitives (including accusative and infinitive clauses), gerunds, gerundives, and nominal clauses.
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Pinkster, Harm. "Subordinate clauses with nouns, adjectives, and adverbs." In The Oxford Latin Syntax, 435–70. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199230563.003.0017.

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Chapter 17 deals with subordinate clauses, both finite and non-finite, which depend on nouns, adjectives, or adverbs. Some of these clauses are required by the meaning of the governing word, others are optional. A distinction is made between declarative, interrogative, and imperative subordinate clauses. They are discussed according to the various subordinating devices: subordinators (e.g. quod, ut), question particles, infinitives (including accusative and infinitive clauses), gerunds, supines, and nominal clauses.
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Fabrizio, Claudia. "Infinitives and subjecthood between Latin and Old Italian." In Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family, 221–45. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857907.003.0007.

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Abstract The chapter examines the syntactic behaviour of a special class of non-canonical subjects, namely nominal infinitives, in Latin and in one of its daughter languages, Old Italian. The data show that Latin infinitives can appear in subject function only if the finite verb of the clause belongs to a restricted set of unaccusative predicates, corresponding to states or telic changes of state. In other words, Latin infinitives cannot surface as subjects of unergative and transitive predicates, thus conforming to a widespread cross-linguistic trend concerning non-canonical subjects. Vice versa, the distribution of subject infinitives in Old Italian is unrestricted, insofar as they are eligible to subjecthood regardless of the finite verb of the clause. The hypothesis this chapter explores is that the change which took place from Latin to Old Italian, involving the syntactic status of nominal infinitives, might have started from the clauses with a finite experiencer predicate.
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Pinkster, Harm. "Subordinate clauses filling a satellite position." In The Oxford Latin Syntax, 237–434. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199230563.003.0016.

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Chapter 16 deals with subordinate clauses, both finite and non-finite, which function as satellites in their sentence (traditionally called adverbial clauses). The finite clauses with a subordinator are discussed according to their semantic function, e.g. reason, purpose, and condition. The non-finite clauses are discussed according to morphological type: infinitives, participles (including ablative absolute clauses), gerunds, gerundives, supines, and nominal clauses.
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Hamari, Arja, and Rigina Ajanki. "Mordvin (Erzya and Moksha)." In The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages, 392–431. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767664.003.0023.

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Mordvin, a minority language in European Russia, comprises two closely related languages, Erzya and Moksha, differing from each other mainly in phonology and morphology. The Mordvin languages exhibit a high degree of synthesis in nominal and verbal inflection. The ten cases have indefinite and definite forms; the latter are expressed with suffixation of former demonstrative pronouns. Mordvin has only three tenses, but six moods, most of which have merged from the main verb and the verb 'to be'. In the so-called objective or definite conjugation, the personal suffixes express both the person of the subject and that of the object. Mordvin has a rich system of infinitives, participles, and gerunds, functioning also as kernels of clausal constructions. Noun predicates can be conjugated as verbs. Owing to strong Russian influence the basic word order is now SVO. Russian influence can also be seen in the systematic palatalization of consonants before front vowels.
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Faarlund, Jan Terje. "Subordinate clauses." In The Syntax of Mainland Scandinavian, 237–88. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817918.003.0008.

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In subordinate clauses, the C position is occupied by a complementizer word, which may be null. The finite verb stays in V. SpecCP is either empty or occupied by a wh-word, or by some other element indicating its semantic function. Nominal clauses are finite or non-finite. Finite nominal clauses are declarative or interrogative. Declarative nominal clauses may under specific circumstances have main clause word order (‘embedded V2’). Infinitival clauses are marked by an infinitive marker, which is either in C (Swedish), or immediately above V (Danish). Norwegian has both options. Relative clauses comprise several different types; clauses with a relativized nominal argument are mostly introduced by a complementizer; adverbial relative clauses relativize a locative or temporal phrase, with or without a complementizer; comparative clauses relativize a degree or identity. Under hard-to-define circumstances depending on language and region, subordinate clauses allow extraction of phrases up into the matrix clause.
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van Schaaik, Gerjan. "Sentential complements." In The Oxford Turkish Grammar, 651–76. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851509.003.0035.

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Not only transitive verbs can take a sentential complement. The lexical category of adjectives contains a limited number of items that can take a sentential complement. Also certain nouns, such as kinship terms, make sense only with some other notion in the background, and there are two ways in which this is expressed: by a genitive-possessive construction or by a nominal compound with a sentential complement. The third section shows that adjectives, nouns, and adverbs expressing an epistemic modality take their sentential complements in a similar way. An alternative is found in existential constructions with an infinitival complement in the dative. This pattern is common to predicates expressing a deontic modality as well. Postpositional sentential complements are treated in the final sections.
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"Infinitive Endings, Conjugation Classes, Nominal Derivational Suffixes, and Vocalic Gamuts in Romance." In Diachronic Problems in Phonosymbolism, 105. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.eai1.08inf.

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