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The unavailability of temporal de re in English infinitives
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Date created: 2021-09-12 09:29 PM | Last Updated: 2021-09-12 09:35 PM
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This paper provides novel evidence for the view that infinitives are truly tenseless. Based on experimental evidence, we show that speakers have a clear preference for finite complements when a de re interpretation is intended. This follows if infinitives lack tense but is not expected if tense is present.
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