Download or read book Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects written by Guido Mensching and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.