On the margins of perception - TO-clauses: a standard construction of perception verbs?
The main objective of this corpus-based study is to provide an account for the fact that, contrary to what some grammars postulate, TO-infinitive clauses can be – and are – used in the complementation of perception verbs in the active. The analysis seeks to answer the underlying question of whether...
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| Main Author: | Christelle LACASSAIN-LAGOIN |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2018-06-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/6283 |
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