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A special verb form not inflected for person and number.

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Looking for the name of research area *my brother helps me (to) translate*

The example is a classical linguistic question with the canonical example phrase "help him (to) write" (for an overview and more references, see, e.g., Pinson (2015)), but it is not a named subdiscipl …
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Infinitive Marker

Of course, the infinitive marker to has a part of speech (POS) label. What exactly it is depends on your POS tagset. … In the Penn Treebank tagset there is a special tag TO only for the infinitive marker (sometimes merged with the preposition depending on the corpus and the tagger used), in another tagset is may be just …
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What do "finite" and "non-finite" mean in linguistics?

In traditional grammar a finite form of a verb is a fully specified verb form according to all verbal categories relevant to the specific language, like voice, aspect, mood, tense, person, or number. …
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