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À l'intérieur de la partie du discours «verbe», l'infinitif a été caractérisé comme le «nom du verbe», une forme verbale ayant, à cause de sa proximité immédiate avec le plan du nom, certaines affinités avec celui-ci qui ne se trouvent pas avec les formes conjuguées (cf. Guillaume 1992: 141). L'infinitif français peut avoir la fonction sujet, par exemple, ce qui semble strictement impossible avec des formes des modes indicatif ou subjonctif. L'infinitif anglais, par contre, ne s'emploie presque jamais en fonction sujet, ce qui remet en question son statut de forme verbale définie au voisinage du nom. L'objet de la …
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In a previous paper concerned with defining the potential meaning of the -ing form in English (Duffley 1993), it was proposed that the impression of imperfectivity produced by the -ing when used in the progressive construction is a consequence of actualizing the relation of the event to its spatial support. Since the latter can only actually occupy one instant within event time, this engenders a representation of the event as divided into an already accomplished portion (situated before the position occupied by the spatial support) and a yet to be accomplished portion (situated after it). Further research into the problem …
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As a form belonging to the quasi-nominal mood in the English verb system, the -ing has been defined with respect to the other forms of this mood, the infinitive and the past participle, as representing an event which is referred to some point in time falling between its beginning and its end. This definition has proved extremely valuable for explaining the vast array of uses of the so-called “Progressive form” of the verb in English (see Hirtle 1967, 1986, 1990). When applied to the gerundive uses of the -ing form, however, it raises a number of serious problems. The aim …
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The psychomechanical analysis of auxiliaries, based on the principle that auxiliary use involves an interception of the genesis of the verb's lexeme before the latter reaches the full meaning it has as a main verb, will be applied here both to the auxiliary use of do and to that of need in order to show that subduction does not produce the same type of result in both cases. With need, subduction clearly results in a mental position in the field of the potential: this is to be seen both in the dropping of the third person singular -s ending and …
