base form or plain form (go, write, climb), which has several uses—as an infinitive, imperative, present subjunctive, and present indicative except in the...

necessity, possibility or advice. Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. In English, the modal verbs...

Primer, 1962 edition, p. 91.) but has no nominative case, for which an infinitive (referre) serves the purpose Oxford English Dictionary: 'Referendum' a...

progressive), three voices (active, passive, reflexive), and an inflected infinitive. Most perfect and imperfect tenses are synthetic, totaling 11 conjugational...

countless natural language expressions, including counterfactuals, propositional attitudes, evidentials, habituals, and generics. Modality has been intensely...

also have a change of mood. For instance Latin indirect speech uses the infinitive for statements and the subjunctive for questions. In indirect speech,...

incomplete tense (the imperative), as well as three non-temporal forms (the infinitive, gerund, and past participle). Two of the tenses, namely both subjunctive...

asserted that existence is not a predicate. Existence or Being is merely the infinitive of the copula or linking, connecting verb "is" in a declarative sentence...

cond) is a grammatical mood used in conditional sentences to express a proposition whose validity is dependent on some condition, possibly counterfactual...

many to-infinitives to be constitutive of non-finite clauses. This stance is supported by the clear predicate status of many to-infinitives. It is challenged...

have the same meaning. Since a to-infinitive is just the particle to plus a bare infinitive, and a bare infinitive can be elided, the particle to doubles...

said to be the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition. But this semantic idea of a clause leaves out much of English clause...

an additional harmonic vowel, called by linguist Samuel E. Martin the "infinitive" form. This tense-neutral form also does not express any honorifics and...

linguistic modality that encompasses knowledge, belief, or credence in a proposition. Epistemic modality is exemplified by the English modals may, might,...

English infinitive or gerund. Infinitives cannot take subject, relative or TAM prefixes, but they may take object prefixes. The negative infinitive is derived...

used as an adverbial colloquialism in the construction be + like + to infinitive, meaning "be likely to, be ready to, be on the verge of." Examples: He...

exhibited several signs of grammatical convergence, such as avoidance of the infinitive, future tense formation, and others. The same features are not found in...

classes go in pairs (singular and plural) except for the locative and infinitive classes which do not admit plurals. NB: Noun prefixes may or may not change...

non-finite clauses, including infinitive and participial clauses, may also function as relative clauses. These include: infinitive clauses containing an 'explicit'...

In Portuguese, mesoclitic constructions are typically formed with the infinitive form of the verb, a clitic pronoun, and a lexicalized tense affix. For...

tense also have a passive form for the infinitive. There are four non-finite verb forms: infinitive, passive infinitive, and the two participles: perfective/past...

interposed between component words or syllables of the head, such as in split infinitives (to boldly go) or infixation, most commonly expletive infixation (in-fucking-credible)...

repetitive expressions or in quantification (limiting the variables of a proposition). Pro-forms are divided into several categories, according to which part...

Wahl's rule, a set of rules for regular conversion of all but six verb infinitives into derived words including from Latin double-stem verbs (e.g. vider...

meaning (the effect is to apply the logical negation to the following infinitive rather than applying it to the full clause with must). For more details...

it seems that popular usage followed only after Amos Oz employed the infinitive verb form (להתקרנף, lehitkarnef) ten years later. One use of "rhinocerization"...

Complementizer for requires a [-tense] TP: Mary hopes for Kate to win the game. (infinitive) Complementizer whether allows either [+tense] or [-tense] TP: John wonders...

language's only auxiliary verb tun conjugated for person, followed by the infinitive form of the verb, although the auxiliary verb was to be omitted in colloquial...

English language. Similarly, modern style and usage manuals allow split infinitives. African American Vernacular English speakers do not simply replace "is"...

use in Norway. The name Bokmål was officially adopted in 1929 after a proposition to call the written language Dano-Norwegian lost by a single vote in...