… considered to be tensed infinitives. This paper will thus concentrate on future irrealis
infinitives and the conclusion will be that even these types of infinitives lack semantic tense. …

… of infinitives are derived from the following properties: future infinitives are tenseless but …
I propose in section 3, contra most approaches, that future infinitives are tenseless; however…

Tensed clauses, infinitives, and gerunds all have a clausal (subject-predicate) structure, but
they differ from each other in a number of respects, as is well known. One important …

… absence of infinitival tense: propositional infinitives are tenseless whereas irrealis infinitives
involve infinitival tense. Infinitival tense is characterized as anunrealized or possible future …

… tenseless: infinitives in Sect. 3, and imperatives and counterfactuals in Sect. 4. … tenseless
in English. This prediction is of course borne out: imperatives and certain embedded infinitives …

… These verbs may select tenseless non-bare infinitivals and marginally allow partial copying
… to imperative and participial form with infinitive selecting verbs in the Norwegian variants that …

… generalization: infinitives crosslinguistically and … tenseless in different ways despite their
different properties. Based on these pieces of evidence, I argue that infinitives can be tenseless …

… Ins of a better label, infinitives. Of cou infinitive, in English-though it is s struction can be …
Joe and his fellows can perfectly well get along with tenseless verbs, provided they all know …

This paper argues against the view that infinitive, or to be more precise, definitized clauses
have subjects. The so-called infinitive subjects occur in three main types of construction: (i) …

… verbs think that we must draw that distinction in order to distinguish tensed from tenseless …
and tenseless verbs is not essential to the distinction between tensed and tenseless sentences…