190 ORIGIN OF CONSTRUCTIONS OF INFINITIVE IN ANGLO-SAXON. 
fluence. The objective infinitive after the other verb of beginning {aginnan), 
when uninflected, is doubtless original, and on substantially the same grounds 
given for beginnan and onginnan. The inflected infinitive as object with aginnan 
is found only in the later Chronicle (1006 E b ) or in the early years in the late 
and imperfect MS. F. 
The objective infinitive, whether uninflected or inflected, after fon is doubt¬ 
less of native origin. The uninflected infinitive occurs only twice, in Wulfstan; 
the inflected is found in Wserferth, in iElfric, and in Wulfstan, though the 
example in Wserferth, corresponding to a Latin gerundive in the accusative, 
may be considered final in sense. 
As to the verbs of Ceasing ( ablinnan and geswican), as the objective infini¬ 
tive occurs only in Late West Saxon (iElfric and the Gospels), we cannot decide 
as to its origin. Forlcetan, as stated above, is found once in the poems unin¬ 
flected (in And.), and once in the prose inflected (in Greg.), translating here an 
objective active infinitive; and the idiom with this verb may be partly due to 
Latin influence. 
The Latin correspondents are: — for aginnan: U.: objective active infinitive, 13; co¬ 
ordinated finite verb, active, 2; appositive participle, active, 2; — I.: 0; — for beginnan: U.: 
objective active infinitive, 1; no Latin, 2; — I.: objective infinitive (active, 5; passive, 1); 
co-ordinated finite verb, active, 4; ad + a gerundive in the accusative, 1; appositive participle, 
active, 1; no Latin, 7; — for fon: U.: 0; — I.: gerundive in the accusative, 1; co-ordinative 
finite verb, active, 1; no Latin, 1;—for forlcetan: U.: 0; — I.: objective active infinitive, 1; — 
for geswican: U.: objective active infinitive, 1; — I.: 0; — for onginnan: U.: objective infinitive 
(active, 333; passive, 5); subjective active infinitive, 1; active infinitive as retained object, 
2; accusative and active infinitive as object, 1; complementary infinitive (active, 2; passive, 
1); causal active infinitive + a predicate nominative, 1; co-ordinated finite verb (active, 31; 
passive, 2); subordinated finite verb, active, 20; gerund in the ablative, 2; a + a gerund in 
the ablative, 1; absolute participle (active, 4; passive, 6); appositive participle (active, 25; 
passive, 6); noun in the ablative, 5; loose paraphrase, 6; no Latin, 87; — I.: objective active 
infinitive, 4; subordinated finite verb, active, 1; appositive participle, active, 1; inchoative 
indicative, 3; loose paraphrase, 1. 
5. Verbs of Inclination and of Will. 1 
Of this group, the following are found in this idiom in the poetry: forhogian 
(I.: 1), gieman (I.: 1), secan (U.: 2), tilian (U.: 2), wil{l)nian (U.: 1, I.: 1). 
Two of these {tilian and wil(l)nian) are the most frequently used of the whole 
group, the next most frequent being gewil{l)nian. Although only the first of 
the following verbs is found in either the Chronicle or the Laws, the objective 
infinitive, whether uninflected or inflected, with these three verbs {gewil(l)nian, 
tilian, wil{l)nian) is probably of native origin: as we have seen, two of the 
three are found in the poems; and in the translations, the objective infinitive, 
though often translating a Latin objective infinitive, often has other corre¬ 
spondents in the original. For substantially the same reasons, the objective 
infinitive, whether uninflected or inflected, is probably of native origin after 
forhogian, gieman, and secan. 
With forhycgan, the objective infinitive occurs twice uninflected in Bede in 
translation of a Latin objective infinitive, and once inflected in the Blickling 
Homilies, but, as with the kindred forhogian, the infinitive with forhycgan may 
be native. 
1 Given in Chapter II, p. 44. 
