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  FIX ME! THIS IS A COPY OF WHAT IS ON THE INFINITIVE PAGE, NOT CONTENT ABOUT INDICES. An '''infinitive''' is a verb form whose [[subject]] slot is blocked so that it does not fun
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• Infinitive
  An '''infinitive''' is a verb form whose [[subject]] slot is blocked so that it does not fun The infinitive is a kind of [[non-finite verb]].
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• Accusative with infinitive
  ...ect]] in the [[accusative case|accusative]] and the [[predicate]] in the [[infinitive]], in sentences including [[cognition verb]]s, [[causative verb]]s and [[ve It is a kind of [[nonfinite construction]].
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• Grammaticalization
  ...sing') was grammaticalized from a periphrastic construction consisiting of infinitive + 'have' (Latin ''cantare habet > cantar ha > cantará'').
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• Future tense
  ...rb ''go'' followed by an infinitive. It originates from an intention-based construction expressing future time reference. In some languages the meaning has been ex ...[base form]] of the verb (Leech 2002: 78). Furthermore the ''be going to''-construction is commonly used to refer to the future. In English as well as in other lan
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• Main Page
  ...], [[semantic macrorole]], [[subject]], [[subordinator]], [[subcomparative construction]], [[syntactic function]], [[X-bar theory]], [[Θ-role]] ...]], [[expletive infixation]], [[fission]], [[flag]], [[impoverishment]], [[infinitive]], [[inflection]], [[lexeme]], [[macroparadigm]], [[morpheme]], [[morphopho
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• Tenses of English
  .....]. Tense is expressed by inflections, by particles, or by auxiliaries in construction with the verb [...]. ...miss the train'' as a combination of the present + the verb ''will'' + the infinitive ''miss''. König (1995: 154) considers such an interpretation “untenable
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• Tsez
  ** '''emphatic future''' = infinitive + "to be" (present tense); e.g. ''-ikʼ-a yoł'' ("shall go") * '''infinitive''': ''-a''; e.g. ''-iš-a'' ("to eat")
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