De Friese Imperativus-Pro-Infinitivo.

The topic of this paper is a syntactic construction of West Frisian, known as the Imperativus-pro Infinitivo. The second part of this construction consists of the conjunction 'en' 'and' followed by a preposed verbal form. The paper defends the position that the traditional distinction of the construction in a subordinate type and a coordinated type should be replaced with two types of subordination. This analysis offers a perspective on the historical development of the construction that does not have to make use of an a priori implausible kind of grammatical restructuring. As to the internal structure of the construction, attention is paid to alternative ways of accounting for the identification of the implicit subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]