This book describes the historical emergence and spread of the to-infinitive in English. It shows that to + infinitive emerged from a reanalysis of the preposit

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The unifying topic of this volume is the role of information structure, broadly conceived, as it interacts with the other levels of linguistic description, synt

Alongside several related ancient languages, Biblical Hebrew possesses two infinitive forms. The rarer of the two is the infinitive absolute, for which no analo

The International Conference on Historical Linguistics has always been a forum that reflects the general state of the art in the field, and the 2009 edition, he