An emerging future infinitive in present day German?

Reiner, Tabea Elina (2015): An emerging future infinitive in present day German? In: Open Linguistics, Vol. 1, No. 1: pp. 503-518

Abstract

This paper puts forward the hypothesis that there is a future infinitive evolving in present day German and addresses the theoretical consequences that this might have. Section 1 gives the basic definitions as well as some introductory examples. Section 2 presents evidence in favour of the hypothesis, and possible objections are considered in section 3. Finally, section 4 focusses on more theoretical implications.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Languages and Literatures > Department 1 > German as a Foreign Language
• Subjects: 400 Language > 400 Language
• ISSN: 2300-9969
• Alliance/National Licence: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
• Language: English