Vortrag | Kolloquien | Linguistik

Research Colloquium: The Left periphery and the categorial status of zu-infinitivals

Time
Thursday, 14. April 2022
11:45 - 13:15

Location
G 307

Organizer
Research Group Linguistics

Speaker:
Joachim Sabel

The languages of the world differ with respect as to whether they allow for wh-infinitives and infinitival relative clauses.

In this talk, I postulate the "Wh-Infinitive-Generalization" that links the (non-) availability of wh-infinitives and infinitival relatives to morphological properties of the infinitival C-system.

Abstract