Tibetan is one if I understand Sir Charles Bell correctly. He says that when Tibs talk about verbs qua verbs and in use them daily conversation the standard for verbs is the perfect tense. You can check this out by looking at Thumi dGongs Ter, a popular Tibetan verb reference. Bell's book is Colloquial Tibetan. As I understand it Tibetan has no infinitive.

Tibetan is one if I understand Sir Charles Bell correctly. He says that when Tibs talk about verbs qua verbs and use them daily conversation the standard for verbs is the perfect tense. You can check this out by looking at Thumi dGongs Ter, a popular Tibetan verb reference. Bell's book is Colloquial Tibetan. As I understand it Tibetan has no infinitive.