Rise of the To-Infinitive, The Richard Swale from the inception of the

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Rise of the To-Infinitive, The Richard Swale from the inception of theThis book describes the historical emergence and spread of the to infinitive in English. It shows that to + infinitive emerged from a reanalysis of the preposition to plus a deverbal nominalization, which spread first to purpose clauses, then to other nonfinite environments. The book challenges the traditional reasoning that infinitives must have been nouns in Old English because they inflected for dative case and can follow prepositions. Dr Los shows