Inflected infinitives in Galician

Romance languages and linguistic theory, pp. 259–274

Abstract

Abstract 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.

Authors 3

1. Michelle Louise Sheehan

   Anglia Ruskin University

   Affiliation as printed

   Anglia Ruskin University

2. Jeffrey Blokzijl Aachen

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Leiden University

3. M. Carmen Parafita Couto Aachen

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Leiden University