About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 158. Not illustrated. Chapters: Syntactic Category, Word Grammar, Modal Particle, Functional Theories of Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar, Predicative Verb, Non-Finite Verb, Non-Configurational Language, Existential Clause, Adverbial Clause, Dynamic Antisymmetry, Scrambling, Verb Phrase, Center Embedding, Pro-Sentence, Run-On Sentence, Sluicing, Oligosynthetic Language, Government, Simpler Syntax, Logical Form, Relational Grammar, Arc Pair Grammar, Separable Verb, Subject-Auxiliary Inversion, Dependency Grammar, Describing Speech, Specifier, Discourse Particle, Dynamic Verb, Subcategorization Frame, Sloppy Identity, Verb Object Subject, Reciprocal, Tripartite Language, Id/lp Grammar, Intensive, Sociative Case, Adverbial Phrase, Subordination, Grammatical Construction, Syntactic Hierarchy, Double Dative, Grammatical Relation, Lexical Rule, Autocausative Verb, Preparatory Subject, Apodosis, Nexus Grammar, Small Clause, Captative Verb, Diathesis Alternation, Ov Language, Vo Language, Phonetic Form, Protasis, Accusative Verb, Affix Grammar Over a Finite Lattice, Multi-Word Verb, Inflectional Phrase, Slifting, Semi-Modal. Excerpt: In linguistics, a non-finite verb (or a verbal) is a verb form that is not limited by a subject and, more generally, is not fully inflected by categories that are marked inflectionally in language, such as tense, aspect, mood, number, gender, and person. As a result, a non-finite verb cannot serve as a predicate and can be used in an independent clause only when combined with an auxiliary verb (e.g., "He can write" but not "He to write"). Rather, it can be said to head a non-finite clause. By some accounts, a non-finite verb acts simultaneously as a verb and as another part of speech (e.g., gerunds combined with articles or the possessive case); it can take adverbs and certain kinds of verb arguments, pro...
