Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword -- I Questions about nonfiniteness -- 1 Finiteness, tense, person agreement -- 2 How nonfinite domains differ from finite ones -- 3 Crossing the verb/noun border -- 4 A program -- II Key concepts and emerging issues in recent syntactic theorizing -- Introduction -- 5 Categories and their labels -- 6 Categories and their features: Inheritance and the C-T connection -- 7 The licensing of overt and controlled subjects -- 8 The semantics of nonfinite tense -- III The morphosyntax of English gerund forms -- Introduction -- 9 The syntax/morphology interface -- 10 Transcategorial items, mixed projections -- 11 A preliminary classification of gerund phrases -- 12 Lexical approaches to trancategoriality -- 13 Syntactic accounts of transcategoriality -- 14 Conclusion -- IV The syntax of English gerund clauses -- Introduction -- 15 Some semantic properties of gerund domains -- 16 How gerund constructions differ from one another -- 17 A labeling analysis of Acc-ing constructions -- 18 A category-switching analysis of Poss-ing constructions -- 19 A note on nominal gerund constructions -- 21 Summary -- V The morphosyntax of verbo-nominal heads in contemporary Welsh -- Introduction -- 22 The two uses of the verb-noun -- 23 The internal structure of VNP projections -- 24 Aspectual properties of Welsh verb-nouns -- 25 Conclusion -- VI The syntax of Welsh verbo-nominal clauses -- Introduction -- 26 i-initial verbo-nominal clauses -- 27 Bod-initial constructions -- 28 Labeling Welsh VN-clauses -- 29 The tense of VN-clauses -- 30 Conclusion -- VII Verbo-nominal root clauses in Middle Welsh -- Introduction -- 31 Some remarkable data -- 32 A short excursus on unergative VNs -- 33 Against the nominal analysis -- 34 The ergativity of verbo-nominal root and embedded clauses -- 35 Making the ergative analysis explicit -- 36 Coexistence of ergative-absolutive and nominative-accusative patterns -- 37 The interpretation of tense -- 38 Conclusion -- 39 Appendix: Proposals for the analysis of ergative structures -- VIII The syntax of inflected infinitives in European Portuguese -- 40 Introduction -- 41 Three asymmetries -- 42 The non-existence of an auxiliary/main verb asymmetry -- 43 The case licensing of IIC subjects -- 44 The eventive/stative divide -- 45 The factive/nonfactive asymmetry and the categorial identity of IICs -- 46 Labeling IICs -- 47 Inflected/uninflected infinitive clauses with a null subject -- 48 Conclusion -- 49 Appendix: Verb classes in European Portuguese -- IX Extraposition phenomena -- Introduction -- 50 The extraposition of embedded finite clauses -- 51 Why Welsh VN-clauses obligatorily extrapose, why Welsh VN-phrases cannot -- 52 A principled approach to extraposition -- 53 Why gerund clauses don't extrapose -- 54 Why Portuguese inflected infinitive structures sometimes extrapose, sometimes don't -- 55 Conclusion -- X The Latin ab urbe condita construction -- Introduction -- 56 Domain of study -- 57 Basic syntactic and semantic properties of the DPC -- 58 The analysis of passive past participles: A few landmarks -- 59 DPCs as mixed projections -- 60 Agreement and case in DPCs -- 61 The origin of linguistic variation -- 62 Conclusion -- XI Facts and events, attitudinal objects and states of affairs -- Introduction -- 63 Do gerund clauses name facts? -- 64 Verbo-nominal clauses -- 65 On attitudinal objects -- 66 Inflected infinitive constructions -- 67 Taking stock -- XII Conclusion: The many faces of defectiveness -- Introduction -- 68 Semantics -- 69 Morphosyntax -- 70 Syntax -- 71 On defectiveness -- References -- Index