infinitival

In the English translation, the verb "came" takes an infinitival complement headed by the infinitive "to take".

Infinitival usage after how and why thus confirms our analysis of the way the modals are put into relation with the infinitive.

Our task in this section will be different and more specific however: to account for infinitival usage alone after verbs denoting causation.

The grammatical structure of an infinitival clause may differ from that of a corresponding finite clause.

The more layered analysis has the advantage that it accommodates the insight that the subject/object constituent is a semantic argument of the infinitival verb.

Some modern generative analysts classify to as a "peculiar" auxiliary verb; other analysts, as the infinitival subordinator.

As well as these, there are two forms which are infinitival and participial in origin, but are frequently used as if they were finite verbs.

In the last example note that this seemingly suppletive present may in fact hark back to the original historical form, and infinitival kvna may be the changed one.

The Seri language of northwestern Mexico has infinitival forms which are used in two constructions (with the verb meaning 'want' and with the verb meaning 'be able').

The significant fact for explaining infinitival usage with dare and need is the type of context in which the modal use with the bare infinitive form is found: as Quirk et al.

As applied to Hebrew, it refers either to the verb's action noun, or to the part of the infinitive following the infinitival prefix (also called the infinitival construct).

In these sentences, it will be recalled, the event is seen as prospective, as a subsequent potential, a meaning that arises from intercepting the movement of to before it reaches the infinitival lexeme's place in time.

The pronouns are marked with object case morphology, but they function semantically as the subjects of the infinitival verbs to their right, i.e. they acquire their theta roles from the verb to their right.

This means that the problem of whether they can be used to make distinctions of meaning is a real one and must be addressed, instead of merely alleging geographical distribution as the explanation for infinitival usage with this verb.

In the example above, PRO serves as the subject of the non-finite clause [to read Al Gore's latest book], thereby satisfying the EPP-feature of T (occupied by the infinitival 'to').

Bloom et al. "s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that" the children learned to with the meaning "" direction towards "" and not as a meaningless syntactic marker"(1984: 391).

Macedonian exhibits a number of grammatical features that distinguish it from most other Slavic languages, such as the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article, and the lack of an infinitival verb, among others.

Having examined the reasons for the use of the bare infinitive with the modals, it is now possible to deal with infinitival usage with two verbs which function both as modal auxiliaries and as lexical verbs, need and dare.

The simple wordtags either stand for classes of grammatically similar words (e.g. NN for singular common noun) or for closed class words that have a special function (e.g. TO indicating when the word to is infinitival).

Present tense usually results in the dropping of the final vowel of the infinitival form of the verb and associated changes as above, as does affixation by many, but not all, further derivational and inflectional suffixes beginning with stops, affricates, and other consonants.

This recalls Mittwoch's observation (1990: 118) that with hear "there seems to be a constraint that the sound perceived must be naturally associated with, and attributable to, the referent of the infinitival subject" :(80) She was heard to mutter a curse under her breath /sing the national anthem.

While such views are common doctrine in grammars as far as finite forms are concerned, it will be proposed here that a support or person is also present in the infinitival form of the verb, even though the latter can neither be predicated grammatically of a subject nor take any personal endings.

If the predicate adjunct to the subject is felt to qualify the support of the verb in She was alone, it would seem plausible that in (9) alone is also incident to the support of the verb (used here in the infinitival form), even though there is no subject pronoun to identify this support's ordinal rank.

Here the infinitival clause to get married is contained within the finite dependent clause that John is going to get married; this in turn is contained within another infinitival clause, which is contained in the finite independent clause (the whole sentence).