Infinitives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: A Diachronic Perspective

Preface and acknowledgments\nTable of contents\nList of contributors\n1. Infinitival patterns and their diachronic dynamics: Questions and challenges\nI . Acl verbs and restructuring effects\n2. Restructuring at the syntax-semantics interface\n3. The Romanian infinitive selected by perception and cognition verbs\n4. A diachronic perspective on the semantics of AcI clauses in Greek\nII. Infinitive structures versus other non-finite and finite patterns\n5. Finite, infinitival and verbless complementation: The case of believe, suppose and find\n6. Early Modern Romanian infinitives: origin and replacement\n7. Semantic factors for the status of control infinitives in the history of German\n8. Anti-agreeing infinitives in Old Hungarian\n9. The emergence of expressions for purpose relations in older Indo-European languages\n10. Main clause infinitival predicates and their equivalents in Slavic: Why they are not instances of insubordination\nLanguage index\nSubject index