--- In cybalist@..., "petegray" <petegray@...> wrote:
>
> The placing of the infinitive or participle at the end of the
sentence has
> nothing to do with its being a verb form.
I believe this is where we disagree. You seem to think that I
exaggerate the "V2", infinite verbals. This a bit out of topic, but
in Scandinavian a new phenomenon has arisen, where finite verbals are
omitted in subordinate clauses. This is very common in Swedish, which
in fact has become a language with three finite tenses in subordinate
clauses: present, imperfect and perfect. In Norwegian the verb in the
independent sentence must be in the passive, and the verb in the
subordinate clause must be in the supine. This construction, for
which Mark de Vos has given the term super-passive, is discussed in
the linguistics discussion group.
So, at least in Scandinavian, the usage of infinite forms of the verb
cannot be exaggerated as to the SVO coding theory, sometimes there is
no finite form of the verb in use, yet the V in SVO hasn't
disappeared becase of that, has it?
Håvard