ABSTRACT
Withinthetheorythatwehavebeendeveloping,itis
onlyiftheyhavebeennominalized.Henceweareforced toassumethatinItaliantheinfinitivalmorpheme-E! mustbesemanticallyassociatedwiththenominalizing function'~'.Hence,Italianbareinfinitiveswill denoteindividualimagesofpropositionalfunctions(i.e. conditions).IfinEnglishthereissomedoubtasto whetheritis[-AGR]ortheparticletothatnominalizes VP-meanings,theexamplesin(57)makeitprettyclear thatnosuchdoubtcanariseinItalian.
