Abstract

In this paper, the A. discuss a number of problems he had with the interpretation of Old English to in to-infinitives as described by Taro Kageyama. The main part of his argument will be to show that the presence (or absence) of to does make a difference semantically. For this purpose, he will look at a number of constructions in which both to and zero infinitives occur, shows how they differ, and how this can be stated in syntactic terms

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