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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 4 / 2004  
         
  Article:   INFINITIVAL CLAUSES AS SUBJECT IN THE AV AND NEB.

Authors:  ANA-MARIA IUGA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The use of parallel and translation corpora is an issue of research in linguistics and continues to reveal links between sentence-grammar and discourse. Sentence and text-level factors appear to be interconnected and the link between syntax and text is a relatively unexplored field of research. Our opinion is that to investigate particular structures, to look for the distribution of the particular structures and their meanings yields a much better picture of the linguistic items under scrutiny and makes such an investigation relevant. The object of this study is the Bible, the analysis is limited to grammar. The range of “infinitival clauses as subject” has been made the subject matter of investigation in the present study. In origin and use the infinitive is a verbal noun, having in the course of time acquired gradually increasing verbal force. In Present English it is performing the functions of a verb and a noun combined. Our approach in analyzing infinitival constructions as clauses stresses the verbal quality of the infinitive.  
         
     
         
         
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