Mensching Guido. Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects: A Syntactic Analysis of the Romance Languages

Oxford University Press, 2000. — 282 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax).Overt subjects are usually considered as a property of finite clauses. However, most Romance languages permit specified subjects in a broad range of infinitive constructions. Guido Mensching analyzes this phenomenon in stages of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and other Romance varieties.