Is the usage of specific catenative verb constructions influenced by semantics or proficiency?

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,1, University of Trier, course: Empirical Linguistics, language: English, abstract: Does the level of language learning correlates with the preference of the to-infinitive or the ing-form with German as a first language? We hypothesized that language learners with a higher level prefer u...