Re: Are Russian infinitival verbs inflected for person, number, etc

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "gleyink" <eyink@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "gleyink" <eyink@> wrote:
> >
> > I wouldn't go so far as to say "by definition". Infinitive forms are
> > verbal nouns and, as such, may be conjugated in some languages.
>
> Sorry, I meant "declined" not "conjugated". (But, for all I know they
> may be conjugated in some languages, too. The modern Celtic languages
> have conjugated prepositions, so perhaps conjugated infinitives exist
> somewhere also...)
>

They do, in Portuguese.


Torsten