1st Edition
A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles Volume 5, Syntax (fourth volume)
This book was first published in 1954.
1. Introductory
2. Simple nexus as ordinary object
3. Simple nexus as object of result
4. Various remarks on nexus-objects
5. Simple nexus as regimen of a preposition
6. A simple nexus as tertiary
7. Nexus-substantives
8. The gerund. Substantive nature
9. The gerund. Verbal nature
10. The infinitive
11. The infinitive. Subject and predicative
12. Infinitive as object
13. To-infinitive as object
14. Infinitive governed by prepositions
15. The infinitive as tertiary
16. The infinitive as tertiary
17. Infinitives of reaction and specification
18. Subject + infinitive as object of main verb
19. Subject + infinitive in other employments
20. Final remarks on infinitives
21. Clauses as tertiaries
22. Implied dependent nexus
23. Negation
14. Requests
15. Questions
Biography
Otto Jespersen
