Tense Mood Aspect-agreeing Infinitivals is an in-depth investigation of the syntax of verb-verb
agreement phenomena in Swedish including pseudocoordinations of the form John started and
wrote 'John started writing' and double participles of the form John had been-able written
'John had been able to write'. Providing evidence from facts concerning extraction locality
selection and interpretation the book argues that the relevant construction types all involve
surface variants of infinitives in disguise infinitivals that agree with the matrix clause in
tense mood aspect. Arguments are presented in favour of taking the dependencies underlying the
agreement to be instances of Agree between functional heads of the same label a configuration
that yields restructuring clause-union. The main theoretical contributions of the book are two:
(i) Agreement is proportional to functional structure: The possibility of copying a particular
morphosyntactic form is contingenton the presence of the corresponding functional projection in
the agreeing XP. (ii) Size constancy between restructuring non-restructuring infinitivals: The
category selected by a verb may remain constant between restructuring and non-restructuring
configurations.It is suggested that an important aspect of restructuring may be alternation
between unmarked (negatively specified) features and unvalued varieties of the same features
capturing properties such as tenselessness finitelessness etc. of restructuring infinitivals.
The book is an important contribution to the syntax of infinitival clauses the syntax of
clause-union restructuring and more generally to the syntax of agreement phenomena in natural
language. In addition it provides a general reference source for anyone interested in the
syntax of Swedish and other Scandinavian languages.
