TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sara Quintero Ramírez
PY  - 2020
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631831137
TI  - Infinitives in the Sports Press
T2  - A Contrastive Analysis in English, French and Spanish      
DO  - 10.3726/b17355
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1059122
N2  - This book focuses on the main constructions with infinitives in sports newspaper articles in three different languages. To achieve this, three corpora of sports newspaper articles are contrasted, one corpus in English, one in Spanish and another one in French. Each corpus is constituted by fifty sports newspaper articles. These infinitive constructions are characterized from a syntactic-textual approach. The main roles identified in the corpora are: a) infinitive phrases in a noun role, b) infinitive phrases in a verb role: verbal periphrases, c) infinitive clauses with a junction purpose, d) independent constructions, e) lexicalized and grammaticalized infinitives. Furthermore, the most relevant similarities and differences in the infinitive constructions in each corpus are determined.
KW  - non-finite forms, infinitives, sports discourse, newspaper articles, syntax
LA  - English
ER  -