Verb Classes with Eventive Infinitives in Spanish
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چکیده
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 agree with them–, and with a genitive subject (1a). As for their verb properties, they can appear with adverbs and direct objects –often bare nouns(1b).
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