>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