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

votation, popular consultation, ballot question, ballot measure, or proposition. Some definitions of 'plebiscite' suggest it is a type of vote to change...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 with a thesis titled Infinitives supervised by Noam Chomsky, Alec Marantz and David Pesetsky. In 2018...

(noun or noun phrase), though the pronoun can also refer to a whole proposition, as in "The train was late, which annoyed me greatly", where the antecedent...

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

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

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

"Марк Твен" ("Mark Twain") in the instrumental case. a predicate with infinitive, future tense, imperative, conditional and gerund of the verbs "быть"...

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...

English modal verbs. They have various uses, including the expression of propositions about the future, in what is usually referred to as the future tense...

subtypes of nouns, verbs, punctuation, etc.; no distinction of "to" as an infinitive marker vs. preposition (hardly a "universal" coincidence), etc.). Subsequently...

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