Early Inflected Infinitives and Late V-to-C Movement

Santos, Ana LúciaDuarte, InêsPires, AcrísioRothman, Jason2018-10-102018-10-102011Santos, Ana Lúcia; Duarte, Inês; Pires, Acrisio; Rothman, Jason (2011): "Early Inflected Infinitives and Late V-to-C Movement" in Danis, Nick; Mesh, Kate; Sung, Hyunsuk: BUCLD 35: Proceedings of the 35th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.http://hdl.handle.net/10451/34963In this paper we have provided results regarding child production data showing that: (i) inflected infinitives are productive in child European Portuguese/EP as early as the age of 1;11 - in most of these cases inflected infinitives are unambiguously identified only by an overt subject, although some unambiguous cases also bear overt inflection; (ii) almost all inflected infinitives produced at this early stage are already used in expected structures. However, 98% of inflected infinitives produced in expected contexts in the early child EP data we analyzed here are restricted to para ‘for’ purpose clauses.engEarly Inflected Infinitives and Late V-to-C Movementconference object