Re: Infinitives
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 27, 2000, 18:26 |
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Mangiat wrote:
>Hello everyone!
>I'd like to eliminate the infinitive in my Vaiysi, but I don't know how
>precisely. I've heard that modern Greek has this feature (is it true?), but
>I don't know how to realise it and how does it work
>With modal verbs? I want to go > I want me to go?
Vassily gave you an example using mood; you could also use
non-infinitival verbal nouns or participles. "I want my going" where
'going' is a verbal noun that the subject desires; "I go, that is the
thing I want" where the sentence 'I go' is used nominally and placed
in apposition to 'thing'. Other possibilities exist!
Padraic.
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>Luca Mangiat
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