He covers social setting and language ecology, segmental sound patterns, morphologically specific sound patterns,
finite verb stem inflection, predicate inflectional suffixes, nominal and phrasal morphology, complex verbs and compounding, and Murrinhpatha wordhood and gradient morphology.
When no
finite verb was present, the infinite verb was counted (e.g., to late to jump off, Hansson).
the example in (6), where the particle to is placed before the
finite verb woldon; hence, it is clear that it cannot be the infinitive particle:
In his opinion the DP head my, assigned the plural marking to the
finite verb give.
The description of this kind of constructions in Miina Norvik's dissertation seems a good start for a discussion of a morpho-syntactic nature--what is the status of the
finite verb in this kind of constructions, whether it is a copula or the so called semi-copula/ quasi-copula or compound predicate, that is, to what extent we can talk about the level of grammaticalization of the
finite verb.
Wahrend das
finite Verb im deutschen Satz, je nachdem ob ein Aussagesatz, eine Entscheidungsfrage, ein Nebensatz usw.
What percentage of the
finite verb phrase contexts focuses on prior events, requiring the use of simple past?
Finnish has a verbal construction (underlined in (1)-(3)) called colorative construction which combines two verbs: a non-finite verb (henceforth Vi) and a
finite verb (Vii).
The student who wrote the following poem, for example, successfully imitates the sentence patterns of the Roethke model, where the main teaching point was how the non-finite verbs and the use of the senses create an immediacy to the scene, as though the childhood memory is being re-lived, while the final line of the poem uses a
finite verb to 'resolve' the scene.