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to-infinitive en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to.
    • As it turned out, much previous work on the subject is based on two assumptions about the situation of the to'''-infinitive in OE that have never been tested, but have, through constant reiteration, achieved the status of axioms: first, that the categorial status of the to'''-infinitive in OE is PP; and secondly, that the to'''-infinitive spread at the expense of the infinitive without to, the bare infinitive (see below, §§1.2 and 1.3). 2005, Bettelou Los, “Introduction”, in The Rise of the To-Infinitive (Oxford Linguistics), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

Forms

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to-infinitives Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

bare infinitive

Synonyms

full infinitive · marked infinitive

Translations (3)

ja to不定詞 (uninflected verb form) · fr infinitif complet (uninflected verb form) · fr infinitif avec to (uninflected verb form)