VerbForm: form of verb or deverbative
Description
Even though the name of the feature seems to suggest that it is used exclusively with verbs, it is not the case. Some verb forms in some languages actually form a gray zone between verbs and other parts of speech (nouns, adjectives and adverbs). For instance, participles may be either classified as verbs or as adjectives, depending on language and context. In both cases VerbForm=Part may be used to separate them from other verb forms or other types of adjectives.
Uralic verbs have rich inflection / derivation pattern for for infinite forms,
these are marked using VerbForm feature. However, Finnish uses additional
features InfType and PartType to enumerate all the different verb forms,
this needs some unifying.
Fin: Finite
Finite is used for regularly inflected verb form. Verbs that inflect for mood (Mood), tense (Tense) or person (Person) are finite and are assigned the VerbForm value Fin.
Finite examples
- [fi] juoksen “I run”
Inf: Infinitive
Infinitive is a form of verb most typically used in syntactic expressions, verb chains and so forth. Uralic infinitives share features of nouns, and may have case inflection for example. It is notable that Uralic languages will have more than one infinitive form often, and often one of these is the citation form for dictionaries, i.e. lemma, but it is not shared between languages: Finnish lemma is “A infintive”, Estonian “MA infinitive” and Hungarian is a finite form.
Infinitive examples
- [fi] juosta “to run”, nähdäkseni “in order for me to see”, kuollessa “while dying”, syömättä “without having eaten”
VerbForm in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]