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	Greek/English Grammatical Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A finite verb is one whose form changes in order to match the form of the subject.
		A transitive verb is a verb that 'transfers' the action to and affects a noun (or substantive).
		An intransitive verb is a verb that does not transfer action to a noun (a direct object).
	www.ntgreek.org /learn_nt_greek/terms.htm (1099 words)

	Auxiliary verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In linguistics, an auxiliary or helping verb is a verb whose function it is to give further semantic information about the main or full verb which follows it.
		Every clause has a finite verb which consists of a full verb (a non-auxiliary verb) and optionally one or more auxiliary verbs, each of which is a separate word.
		French, German, and Dutch use it for verbs of motion and becoming, and (in German and Dutch) for "to be" itself, as does Italian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Auxiliary_verb (851 words)

	HF ENG 111 Grammar: Lecture 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The present tense form of a main verb differs from the base form only when the verb is marked for agreement with a subject in the third person singular: she walks, she sings, she goes.
		It is the main verb in the verb phrase functioning as V in the clause that determines what other clause elements have to be present in the clause.
		Catenative verbs were described in lecture 3 as 'lexical verbs which are used as if they were auxiliaries': all their formal properties are typical of lexical verbs, but their meaning has some resemblance to that of certain auxiliaries.
	www.hf.ntnu.no /engelsk/staff/johannesson/111gram/9900l08.htm (3028 words)

	MPI for Psycholinguistics, Project: Event Representation
		The distinction between finite and non-finite verb forms, familiar from the days of the Greek grammarians, is primarily seen as a morphological phenomenon.
		Verb forms that are inflected for tense, mood, person, number and maybe other categories are considered to be finite, all others are considered as non-finite.
		If the complement is a finite clause in itself, then its 'tense component' may be temporally related to the topic time or to the situation time of the main clause; but it may also be directly related to the time of utterance.
	www.mpi.nl /world/projects/finiteness.html (1107 words)

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		Verb placement in Dutch and its acquisition To set the stage for a summary of the available evidence on children’s acquisition of verb placement, it is useful to briefly review verb second in Dutch and its syntactic analysis.
		The initial portions of the curves for the single finite verbs in Figure 1 represent a fairly small number of different words (types), as is indicated by the graphs in Figure 2, which provides a cumulative overview of the different verb types that occur either as finite forms, nonfinite forms or both (overlap).
		It is true that modal verbs and the form is (either as copula or as temporal auxiliary) are among the first-acquired finite verbs.
	www.let.uu.nl /~Frank.Wijnen/personal/IncAcq2.doc (11320 words)

	Grammar of English -- Chapter 6
		This is called the aspect of a verb, as opposed to the tense of a verb which tells you whether the action took place in the present, past, or future.
		A finite verb agrees with the subject (in the present tense) and indicates present or past.
		Finiteness is discussed: a verb is finite if it agrees with the subject and if this subject bears nominative case.
	www.public.asu.edu /~gelderen/314text/chap6.htm (4268 words)

	Linguistics 150, Introduction to transformational grammar, Chapter 12
		In Chapter 11, we discussed the movement of finite verbs to C. In these notes, we will see that finite verbs can also move to I. We begin by illustrating the two options allowed by universal grammar (movement and nonmovement to I) with reference to the Scandinavian languages.
		Underlining indicates finiteness, boldface indicates the main verb (as opposed to an auxiliary verb or a modal), and italics indicate the adverb.
		Given this view of verb movement, the counterparts to the Icelandic treelets in (3) and (4) are as in (26) and (27).
	www.ling.upenn.edu /~beatrice/150-s00/ch12.html (2387 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Since most of the children are producing both finite and non-finite verbs, this lack of error also means that individual children are placing essentially all their finite verbs in second position and non-finite verbs in final position.
		The latter is a finiteness (tense) morpheme, and thus part of the OI stage predictions, the former isn't.
		If you have 2 children with the same finiteness rate, and you measure their finiteness a year later, they will be very close in finiteness at the later measure; there is very little random fluctuation in growth, given the 87% reduction due to time.
	ruccs.rutgers.edu /papers/LennebergDream.doc (21188 words)

	The FrameNet Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Notice that we tag both the verb and the particle as GOV when a phrasal verb is the Governor of a target noun, whether or not the verb and particle are contiguous.
		A sub-case of a controlling verb is that of a verb that can be seen as specifically dedicated to providing external representation for an element of the conceptual structure associated with the meaning of a nominal or adjectival target, which we refer to as support verbs.
		Subjects and objects of support verbs can be taken as Ext for the dependent word; other complements of the support verb, where relevant, can be treated as complements of the dependent noun or adjective.
	www.icsi.berkeley.edu /framenet/book/book.html (15732 words)

	Greek infinitive & participle
		The concessive participle implies that the state or action of the main verb is true in spite of the state or action of the participle.
		It is similar to the participle of purpose in that it views the end of the action of the main verb, but it is dissimilar in that the participle of purpose also indicates or emphasizes intention or design, while result emphasizes what the action of the main verb actually accomplishes.
		Occassionally, though rarely, participles can function as though they were finite verbs and are not dependent on any verb in the context for their mood.
	www.bcbsr.com /greek/gvbls.html (1765 words)

	Supporting English Acquisition
		The following sentences are examples of finite clauses (the finite verbs are highlighted).
		Importantly, each finite clause contains a finite verb, which is preceded by an explicit subject.
		In the second sentence, the same element does not serve as the subject of the finite verb and the subject of the infinitive.
	www.rit.edu /~seawww/logicalsubjects/ls02grammatical.html (496 words)

	NBL Conference: The Role of the Verb in Broca’s Aphasia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Dutch, for example, the position of the finite verb is dependent on whether it is in the matrix or the embedded clause: in the matrix clause the finite verb is moved from clause final to second position, in the embedded clause the finite verb remains in its base-generated position.
		The verb is also the most important Case assigner: it assigns accusative or dative Case to the object and nominative Case to the subject.
		In Dutch Broca’s aphasics, production of finite verbs in the matrix clause, that have been moved from their base-generated position, is significantly more impaired than production of finite, non-moved verbs in the embedded clause.
	odur.let.rug.nl /nbl/program/bastiaanse.html (525 words)

	supplement_1.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the present tense, if the subject is third person singular, a finite verb in English shows agreement with the subject.
		All (and only) finite clauses in English have a nominative subject; if the subject can be replaced by a nominative pronoun, the clause is finite.
		For practice, try identifying the tense of the underlined verbs below: finite (past or present?) or non-finite (infinitival, past participle, or present participle?) These sentences are taken from Chapter 5 of the textbook.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~mcginnis/301/f99/supplement_1.html (468 words)

	Main clauses
		Main clauses with a finite verb in initial position (as in yes/no-questions) are of type ques.
		There is a tradition, both in transformational and non-transformational grammar, to account for this fact by postulating a dependency between the finite verb and the position where finite verbs occur in subordinate clauses.
		Similarly, the semantics of the verbal gap is reentrant with
	odur.let.rug.nl /~vannoord/papers/nle/node15.html (464 words)

	Verbs
		In a verb chain, the first verb in the chain is almost always finite, and the other verbs are always non-finite.
		In a verb chain, the first verb in the chain is almost always finite.
		Finite verbs 'define' the time (past or present) and the subject (singular or plural, and sometimes I or you).
	www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/dick/tta/wc/verbs.htm (1353 words)

	Dagmar Divjak, Katholieke Universitiet Leuven
		I focus on what “decategorialization” (Hopper and Traugott 1993) implies for Russian verbs and I argue that restrictions on both the argument and aspectual structure of a verb are needed in order for the verb to grammaticalize.
		At the same time, I use elements from argument and aspectual structure to localize each of the verbs on the proposed cline from independent to dependent finite verb.
		Interestingly, in Russian, finite verbs that show the highest degree of dependence on the infinitive and seem to have taken first steps towards grammaticalization express not only phase and mood, but also intent, attempt or result (cf.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2004/abstracts/divjak.htm (394 words)

	Primer on Verbs
		English marks aspect by a combination of auxiliary verbs (be or have) and markings on the main verb (-ing, or -en/-ed).
		In each case the main verb ('eat' or 'read') appears to the right of the adverb or negative, indicating that it has not moved.
		The easiest way we can account for the alternation in position between the finite forms of these verbs ('am', 'is' 'are', 'were' 'has') and the non-finite forms ('be', 'been', 'have' etc.) is to posit raising for these verbs from V to T. Modals and auxiliary do do not undergo V to T raising.
	web.pdx.edu /~dbls/Verbprimer.htm (984 words)

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		As we have seen one of the general restrictions on word order in Kashmiri is that the finite element of the verb must come after the first phrasal constituent of a matrix clause.
		If the assumption of a basic order in the verb complex as given in (11) is correct for Kashmiri, it should be possible to find a fairly simple set of rules that will give us the order of elements actually found in root clauses and none of the orders not found.
		Thus, inserting the finite element between natsun and hyechith interferes less with the transparency of (8a) than does the intercalation of chisni in (15a).
	www-personal.umich.edu /~pehook/kash.verb.html (2106 words)

	Lecture 6
		Verbs that aren't either present or past and don't agree with their subjects for number are called non-finite forms.
		To show a verb is tensed and prove a clause is finite, put the verb into the past tense or use a singular subject in the present tense.
		The small clause analysis shares with the exceptional clause analysis the following important property: The NPs following the verb in these construction are analyzed as the subjects of a downstairs clause and not as objects of the upstairs verb.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~gawron/syntax/lectures/lec6.htm (2816 words)

	Middle Dutch word order
		The positioning of the personal verb forms ("finite verb") plays an important role in the function of primary and subordinate clauses.
		The finite verb form is in second place in the sentence, the subject is in first.
		In inversion the subject is moved after the finite verb and another clause appears in first place.
	www.ned.univie.ac.at /publicaties/taalgeschiedenis/en/mnlsatzbau.htm (661 words)

	The Last Word in a Verb Phrase Must Be a Participle
		The principal parts of a verb are given in dictionaries, and the principal parts of the most common irregular verbs are provided as a separate list in many dictionaries and also in most usage handbooks.
		The improper use of the past tense rather than the past participle as the main verb in a verb phrase is considered to be a sign of particular ignorance, and therefore it is one that you should learn never to commit.
		Never use the simple past tense rather than the past participle as the main verb in a verb phrase (i.e., the last verb in the phrase).
	www.grammartips.homestead.com /pastparticiples.html (475 words)

	HF ENG 111 Grammar: Lecture 10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The suffixes used are -t and -d; in one case the form is -de (made).
		Some common verb prefixes in English are: dis-, un- ('reverse the action of V'; of these, dis- is chiefly added to stems of Latin or French origin, while un- is chiefly added to native English stems: disconnect, disengage, disregard vs.
		The term valency is used about the number of such elements a given verb requires (more about this in lecture 14).
	www.hf.ntnu.no /engelsk/staff/johannesson/111gram/lect10.htm (2754 words)

	Grammar Guide -- GrammarStation.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		You have to be careful when inverting your verb to the front position.
		A finite verb is a verb which changes its form to show tense, person or number.
		Note: The form of the verb in these expressions are all in their base forms.
	www.grammarstation.com /servlet/GGuide?type=INVIUI (1221 words)

	Finite verb forms - Anawanda Reference Grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In traditional terms, it can be said that Anawanda verbs inflect for mood, tense and person.
		Among moods, only indicative has a full paradigm of tenses, namely imperfect, perfect, aorist and pluperfect; conditional only distinguishes between imperfect and aorist (also labelled present conditional and past conditional respectively); optative, injunctive and imperative have no distinct tenses.
		The allowed combinations of moods and tenses yield a system of nine verb forms, which developed from the overlapping of a three-way distinction of aspect/modality (imperfective, perfective and virtual) onto a three way distinction of tense (past, present and future, later reinterpreted as past, non-past, volitive).
	www.glossopoiesis.net /Anawanda/finite.html (272 words)

	Revision
		Carries meaning, and can be the only verb in a verb phrase.
		Is followed by a main verb, and can be preceded or followed by auxiliaries.
		Marginal modal auxiliaries: verbs which can be either modals (with root or epistemic meaning: need, have to + used to, dare) or modalizing catenatives (followed by to and requiring do-periphrasis).
	folk.uio.no /hhasselg/GR2-Revision.html (512 words)

	What is a finite verb? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A finite verb is a verb form that
		is fully inflected according to the inflectional categories marked on verbs in the language.
		This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAFiniteVerb.htm (60 words)

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