to-infinitive

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to-infinitive (plural to-infinitives)

  1. (grammar) The English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to.
    • 2005, Bettelou Los, “Introduction”, in The Rise of the To-Infinitive (Oxford Linguistics), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
      As it turned out, much previous work on the subject is based on two assumptions about the situation of the to-infinitive in OE that have never been tested, but have, through constant reiteration, achieved the status of axioms: first, that the categorial status of the to-infinitive in OE is PP; and secondly, that the to-infinitive spread at the expense of the infinitive without to, the bare infinitive (see below, §§1.2 and 1.3).

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