// n. A non-finite form of the verb occurring in some (but not all) languages and typically serving to express the meaning of the verb in the abstract, with no marking for or restriction in tense, aspect, mood or person (though some languages exhibit...

Syntactic construction which contains an infinitive, e.g. Philip wants to go. In older forms of transformational grammar, such sentences were formerly derived via equi-NP deletion from more complex structures which contain NPs with the same reference:...

// n. A conventional label for an infinitival verb phrase preceded by the formative to, as in Lisa wants to buy a BMW. In traditional grammar, such a sequence as to buy was regarded as a single form, the so-called ‘infinitive’ of the verb...

Nominal verb form which has functional and formal properties of both nouns and verbs: verbal properties are government (the reading of the book), aspect (to read vs to have read), voice (to read vs to be read); because of its nominal properties, the...

In grammar, infinitive is the name for certain verb forms that exist in many languages. In the usual (traditional) description of English, the infinitive of a verb is its basic form with or without the particle to: therefore, do and to do, be and to be,...