This could probably be explained by the usage-based theory, specifically, the concept of type frequency. It was assumed that learners acquired infinitive complements first because they were considered a high type frequency construction, and gerund complements later because they ...
It is the aim of this paper to present and elaborate a new solution to the old syntactic problems connected with the Latin gerundive and gerund, two verbal categories which have been interpreted variously either as adjective (or participle) or noun (or infinitive). These questio...
We follow the Activation Approach (Putnam and Sánchez 2013) to account for the potential divergences that heritage speakers might have in relation to infinitive use and interpretation. This approach argues that the divergences in heritage grammars can be explained in relation to factors such as ...