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Deconstructing categories: finiteness in a functional-typological perspective
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Abstract
This chapter examines the notion of finiteness in a functional-typological perspective, with particular regard to the status of finiteness and nonfiniteness as cross-constructionally and cross-linguistically relevant categories. Finiteness and nonfiniteness, as de fined in functionally oriented theories of grammar, do not correspond to internally consistent classes. As the various properties that are taken as distinctive for finiteness and nonfiniteness do not always combine with the same properties from one construction to another, finiteness and nonfiniteness encompass a variety of entities that are similar with respect to some properties but differ with respect to other properties.
Title: Deconstructing categories: finiteness in a functional-typological perspective
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Abstract
This chapter examines the notion of finiteness in a functional-typological perspective, with particular regard to the status of finiteness and nonfiniteness as cross-constructionally and cross-linguistically relevant categories.
Finiteness and nonfiniteness, as de fined in functionally oriented theories of grammar, do not correspond to internally consistent classes.
As the various properties that are taken as distinctive for finiteness and nonfiniteness do not always combine with the same properties from one construction to another, finiteness and nonfiniteness encompass a variety of entities that are similar with respect to some properties but differ with respect to other properties.
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