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  • 6 - Revisiting the Controversial English Constructions with Non-finiteness

  • Bingjun Yang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  • Book:
    Non-Finiteness
    Published online:
    21 April 2022
    Print publication:
    28 April 2022, pp 143-162

  • Summary

    It seems that non-finite clauses in English can be easily identified with the help of morphological indicators, but the fact is that non-finite clauses are often ambiguous in meaning and intermediate in construction. Chapter 6 revisits the controversial English constructions with non-finiteness according to the definition, construction types and principles proposed in the previous chapters. The process-relation perspective provides a good answer for the controversial issues in the causative and non-causative constructions, the serial verb construction, the absolute construction, and other ambiguous non-finite constructions.