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What does infinitival mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or formed from an infinitive
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In this case, then, the infinitival morpheme functions more locally to simply derank the verb in the purpose clause.
The following sentences show that DARE could share its infinitival complement with another modal, in both affirmative and negative clauses, examples and, respectively.
Another class of acquisition accounts attributes infinitival main clauses to processing overload.
Since the function of this infinitival formulation in Hebrew is to emphasize, I think that it is best translated by the usual mechanisms of emphasis in English.
Far from being ungrammatical, split infinitives are always an option for modifiers of infinitival clauses, and sometimes the only option.
For it the proposition is false, the infinitival expression has nothing it can signify, so that the proposition really doesn't have any additional signification at all, contrary to the whole point of the theory.

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