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A special verb form not inflected for person and number.
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What sort of "root" patterns do languages have that don't have infinitive verbs?
There are two kinds of answers, a language-learner's answer and a linguist's answer. The classical language-learner approach is based on learning a specific set of "principle parts", which are actual …
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Outside of English, is there a difference between noun infinitives and gerunds?
For example, in Bantu languages, there is a clearly-defined form "infinitive" usually marked with a prefix kʊ-, which behaves like a verb w.r.t. … Without a language-independent definition of "gerund" and "infinitive", I don't see any way to determine whether "gerunds" are different from infinitives. …
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