The Archaic Infinitives in Homer

The Subject Position in Spanish Nominalized Infinitives

Marcus Berger, University of Michigan 0. While much recent work has focused on various nominal and verbal properties of syntactic nominalizations, relatively little work has investigated how their internal structure is derived. Many authors adopt a ‘mixed projection’ hierarchy in which verbal projections appear interpolated into an otherwise nominal hierarchy. The resulting combination of proje...

The typology of Mandarin Infinitives

There has been a long-standing debate in the literature about whether Mandarin has infinitival clauses. Since there is no verbal morphology to distinguish finite and nonfinite clauses, this is an open question. Researchers have used diagnostics such as the availability of an overt embedded subject and the interpretation of aspect markers to argue both for and against the presence of infinitival...

The Archaic Maternal Superego

It is possible to argue that the concept is somehow in a latent state, under other names, in works that concern its clinical and theoretical area of interest or related matters. The sense in which I employ the term here is to designate a set of problems which are both clinical and theoretical, not the name for a supposed metapsychological agency whose theoretical necessity would be questionable...

The Homer System

Verb Classes with Eventive Infinitives in Spanish

Infinitives have been studied from a variety of perspectives, one of which is the fact that they may behave as nouns and verbs (Hernanz 1999). Although they usually act as either one or the other, there is one particular class of infinitives (Eventive Infinitives, EI) which exhibits at the same time noun and verb behaviour. As nouns, they can be combined with determiners and adjectives –that ag...