Because later works probably ameliorate and supersede earlier works, I cite only articles published after 2005 that I have encountered through Google. Because the papers below have extensive bibliographies and citations, I will remove any suggestion that already appears therein.
[First suggested here:] Henri Adamczweski (1991), Le Français déchiffré (Here is a scan).
FRACZAK, Lidia (2008), French prepositions à and de in infinitival complements : A pragma-semantic analysis, in Kurzon, D. & Adler, S. (eds), Adpositions : Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives, Typological Studies in Language, 74, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, 171-190 (https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00910810/). (Related articles)
Christiane Marque-Pucheu (2008), La couleur des prépositions à et de. (Cited articles)