Abstract
Before approaching the analysis of the infinitival complement system of OF, I undertake a brief description of some parallel phenomena in modern Romance languages. If we are interested in the properties of universal grammar and in how these properties are manifested in particular languages, then the most coherent analyses of languages of the Romance family will be those which succeed in locating both differences and similarities in the grammars of the respective languages within a general framework which must include the Romance group as one of the many clusters over which the framework is viable. Thus, if, as I propose in this chapter, certain structural characteristics that do not appear in ModF are observed in both OF and in Modlt and ModSp, then the descriptive apparatus to be applied to the modern languages should be applied, albeit with modifications, to OF. Since, also, we have at our disposal a considerable store of information concerning phenomena in the modern Romance languages, both data and, importantly, analyses of the data, then it should be obvious that an analysis of constructions in OF cannot disregard parallels in Modern Romance.
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