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Project

Subject and infinitive in Portuguese and Spanish
Code
3F017108
Duration
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
subject (Inflected) Infinitive Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics Adverbial Clauses
 
Project description

Constrastive and corpus-based research on Portuguese and Spanish infinitival constructions with specified, nominative subjects in adverbial clauses. Factors as the degree of authonomy of the subordinate clause, thematic coherence and the degree of verbality of the infinitive and propostionality of the subordinate clause receive special attention in a functional linguistic framework.