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Project

Subject and infinitive in Portuguese and Spanish
Code
01D21307
Duration
10 November 2007 → 01 October 2008
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
Spanish subordination portuguese infinitive subject
 
Project description
 

Contrastive and corpus-based research on Portuguese and Spanish infinitival constructions with specified subjects. Factors as the degree of authonomy of the subordinate clause, theamtic coherence and the degree of verbality of the infinitive receive special attention.