Re: Infinitives & gerunds
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 5, 2006, 17:45 |
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On 10/5/06, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> 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.
It's an etymological difficulty more than anything else. Temporal
distinctions are of necessity "finite", when viewed in the sense in
which infinitives are "infinite".
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>