Changing Structures

The paper addresses the question as to whether the complementation system of Finnish is currently undergoing a change which will ultimately lead to Finnish syntax recognising rakastan puhua (‘I love to talk/speak’) as a valid instantiation of the syntactic structure in question in addition to the traditional construction rakastan puhumista (‘I love talking/speaking’). At present, the former type is distinctly a marked type of expression whereas the latter variant is equally unmarked. The paper a