caa a22 4500 388043121 CHVBK 20200125072211.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199805 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1360674300000678 doi S1360674300000678 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1360674300000678 Los Bettelou Engelse Taalkunde Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands losb@let.vu.nl The rise of the to-infinitive as verb complement [Elektronische Daten] [Bettelou Los] In Old English we find considerable variation in the infinitival complementation patterns of verbs: some verbs take a bare infinitival complement, some verbs take a to-infinitival complement and some verbs can be complemented by either infinitive. This article evaluates two previous attempts to account for the distribution of the two infinitives and offers an alternative account; it also argues that the increase in the use of the to-infinitive occurred mostly at the expense of the finite complement clause rather than at the expense of the bare infinitive, which is the traditional view. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 English Language and Linguistics Cambridge University Press 2/1(1998-05), 1-36 1360-6743 2:1<1 1998 2 ELL https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674300000678 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674300000678 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Los Bettelou Engelse Taalkunde Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands losb@let.vu.nl NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- English Language and Linguistics Cambridge University Press 2/1(1998-05), 1-36 1360-6743 2:1<1 1998 2 ELL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 269337628 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge