The rise of the to-infinitive as verb complement

English Language and Linguistics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-36

  Los, Bettelou ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1017/s1360674300000678     Document Type: Review

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