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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16: Selected papers from the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Newark, Delaware
Edited by Irene Vogel
[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16] 2020
► pp. 259–274

Inflected infinitives in Galician

| Anglia Ruskin University
| Leiden University
| Leiden University

This study uses an audio-questionnaire, supplemented by spoken corpus data, to probe the acceptability of Galician inflected infinitives in different syntactic contexts. Our results reveal that inflected infinitives in Galician are acceptable in a different range of contexts than in closely related Portuguese, and also in a broader range of contexts than previously reported for this language. Intra-speaker variation appears to correlate most strongly with L1 (Spanish/Galician) and gender, with a trend for men and L1 Spanish speakers to be more accepting of the inflected infinitive.

Keywords: Galician, inflected infinitives, control, finiteness, gender
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background to the present study
    • 2.1The distribution of inflected infinitives in Portuguese
    • 2.2Normative pressures and prescriptive norms
    • 2.3Attestation in spoken corpora
  • 3.Methodology
  • 4.Results and discussion
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 21 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.16.16she
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