Syntactic status of the NcI construction
Syntactic status of the NcI construction

Summary/Abstract: In the article published in 1999 in Nowy Filomata Prof. J. Korpanty paid attention to the problems posed by the syntactic construction called nominativus cum infinitivo (NcI.) to the didactics of the Latin language. At the same time, he emphasised that also the authors of the Latin grammars explained that phenomenon in an “insufficient” way, and often even “misleadingly”. And that statement is impossible to disagree with. In my opinion, problems with accurate description of that phenomenon result, first of all, from the difficulties with syntactic interpretation of that construction, and more precisely, from the difficulties with identifying syntactic functions of its particular components. In the said article, Prof. Korpanty wrote that nominativus cum infinitivo is a “kind of a sentence in which, apart from the predicate in the passive voice, there is another verb in the infinitive.

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