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RESULTS. 
IV. ADJECTIVAL: 
(a) With noun or pronoun, habitually inflected, except, possibly, when the 
inflected infinitive is equivalent to a genitive phrase or when the infinitive is 
used strictly as a Latin gerundive (see Chapter XIII, Note 2, p. 182). 
(2) The grounds of the foregoing statement as to which uses of the infini¬ 
tive are native to Anglo-Saxon are briefly these: (1) that these uses are, in 
general, found in the poems and in the more original prose; (2) that, in the Anglo- 
Saxon translation from the Latin, no dominant influence of the original can be 
demonstrated; and (3) that what we know of these uses in the kindred Germanic 
languages tends to support the theory that these uses are native in Anglo- 
Saxon. 
B. FOREIGN (LATIN). 
(3) In the following uses, on the other hand, the infinitive appears to be 
borrowed from the Latin: — 
I. SUBSTANTIVAL: 
(a) Subjective, uninflected and inflected, with passive verbs. 
( b) Objective, with active verbs, as indicated below: 
Group of Verbs: 
(aa) Commanding: 
( bb ) Causing and 
Permitting: 
( cc ) Sense Percep¬ 
tion: 
(dd) Mental Per¬ 
ception: 
(ee) Beginning, 
Delaying, Ceasing: 
(ff) Inclination 
and Will: 
(gg ) Other Verbs: 
Followed by Uninfl. 
Inf. Only: 
| In part: geteon. 
blinnan , forieldan, 
ginnan. 
k 
r 
In part: forefon, ge- 
■ eacSmodigan, getsyrs- 
tigan , lystan, wunian. 
Followed by Infl. Inf. Followed by Uninfl . 
Only: and Infl. Inf.: 
{ { 
| j 
1 \ leornian; see p. 189. 
' In the main: see r fon, forlcetan, and 
■ the list on pp. 37 and J the compounds of 
187. ( ginnan , only in part. 
r r In part only: ge- 
, earnian, gemedemian, 
gewunian; see pp. 
190-192. 
habban in part. 
(c) Objective, uninflected and inflected, with passive verbs. 
( d ) Predicate nominative, in part, normally inflected. 
(e) Appositive, in part, normally uninflected. 
H. PREDICATIVE (OR MORE VERBAL): 
(а) With ( w)uton , in part, uninflected. 
(б) With accusative subject, as object, uninflected except sporadically, after 
(aa) verbs of commanding: forbeodan; (bb) verbs of causing and permitting: 
biegan [began], don, gedon, geSafian, qetSolian, geunnan, niedan; (cc) verbs of 
sense perception: 1 gefelan, gehawian, sceawian; (dd) verbs of mental percep¬ 
tion: 2 ceteawan, eowan, gecytSan, gehatan, geliefan, gemunan, getriewan, Iceran, 
1 The origin is indeterminable after behealdan. 
2 The origin is indeterminable after geacsian and taligan; and after habban and todcelan, of “ other verbs.” 
