Re: Infinitives & gerunds

Quoting "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:

> Hmm. OK. I'm still stuck on the point that infinitives have no time
> element associated with them, whereas in TF, esp. in reported speech, a
> time element could certainly be present.
If Latin can make aspectual distinctions in its infinitives (_monstrare_ "to
show" vs _monstravisse_ "to have shown"), it seems little stretch to me to
imagine infinitives with temporal distinctions.

                                       Andreas

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