Les infinitives problématiques : l’exemple de cease to

Infinitives are usually thought to refer to future events relative to the time denoted by the matrix verb they depend on. But with some verbs this temporal interpretation turns out to be false. “Cease” is one of these verbs which raise questions, as the process expressed by the non-finite form has n...

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Main Author: Geneviève Girard-Gillet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2008-12-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acs/12297
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