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Re: Infinitives

From:Jim Grossmann <steven@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 29, 2000, 4:38
>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?
>Luca Mangiat
1. Convert the finite verb into an adverbial. (e.g. adverb or locative or adpositional phrase.) I want to go. > I go at want. I go wantingly. I go in want. 2. Forget about infinitive structures and use complement clauses. I want to go > I want that I should go. (You could even scrunch the complementizer & the "should" into the verb itself. I want that I should go. > I want #go.samesubject.subjunctive.complement#.) 3. Make your equivalents to infinitives qualify as bona fide noun phrases. I want the experience of going. I want the going-thing. (Number might even convey aspectual information. I want a going-thing. > I want to go once at some specific time. I want going-things. > I want to go more than once.) Jim