1st Edition

A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles Volume 5, Syntax (fourth volume)

By Otto Jespersen Copyright 2007
    546 Pages
    by Routledge

    546 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book was first published in 1954.

    1. Introductory

    2. Simple nexus as ordinary object

    3. Simple nexus as object of result

    4. Various remarks on nexus-objects

    5. Simple nexus as regimen of a preposition

    6. A simple nexus as tertiary

    7. Nexus-substantives

    8. The gerund. Substantive nature

    9. The gerund. Verbal nature

    10. The infinitive

    11. The infinitive. Subject and predicative

    12. Infinitive as object

    13. To-infinitive as object

    14. Infinitive governed by prepositions

    15. The infinitive as tertiary

    16. The infinitive as tertiary

    17. Infinitives of reaction and specification

    18. Subject + infinitive as object of main verb

    19. Subject + infinitive in other employments

    20. Final remarks on infinitives

    21. Clauses as tertiaries

    22. Implied dependent nexus

    23. Negation

    14. Requests

    15. Questions