TY  - JOUR
A1  - Demske, Ulrike
A2  - Demske, Ulrike
A2  - Jędrzejowski, Łukasz
T1  - Towards coherent infinitival patterns in the history of German
T2  - The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns: Their origin, development and loss. In: Journal of Historical Linguistics
N2  - According to Haider (2010), we have to distinguish three types of infinitival complements in Present-Day German: (i) CP complements, (ii) VP complements and (iii) verbal clusters. While CP complements give rise to biclausal structures, VP complements and verbal clusters indicate a monoclausal structure. Non-finite verbs in verbal clusters build a syntactic unit with the governing verb. It is only the last infinitival pattern that we address as a so-called coherent infinitival pattern, a notion introduced in the influential work of Bech (1955/57). Verbal clusters are bound to languages with an OV grammar, hence the well-known differences regarding infinitival syntax in German and English (Haider 2003, Bobaljik 2004). On the widespread assumption that German has been an OV language throughout its history (Axel 2007), we expect all three types of infinitival complements to be present from the earliest attestions of German.
KW  - Infinitival patterns
KW  - history of German
Y1  - 2015
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44334
SN  - 2210-2116 print
SN  - 2210-2124 online
VL  - 2015
IS  - 5.1
SP  - 6
EP  - 40
PB  - Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -