Syntactically Independent Exclamative zu-Infinitives in Modern Standard German: Diachrony and Cross-linguistic Comparison
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DOI: 10.1017/s1470542725000042
Abstract: Abstract In Modern Standard German both bare infinitives and those formed with the particle zu are used as independent main clause predicates, where they each have illocutionary force. While the former can be associated with… read more here.
Keywords: syntactically independent; standard german; linguistic comparison; modern standard ... See more keywords