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RESULTS. 
(1) Substantival: 
(а) Subjective occasionally. 
(б) Objective occasionally. 
(2) Predicative (or More Verbal): 
(a) With auxiliary verbs frequently. 
(b) With ( w)uton occasionally. 
(c) With accusative subject, the phrase being the object of an active transi¬ 
tive verb, not infrequently. 
(< d ) With accusative subject, the phrase being the subject of an active verb 
occasionally and of a passive verb once. 
(3) Adverbial: 
(a) With an adjective once. 
11. In each of its uses, the Anglo-Saxon passive infinitive is of Latin origin. 
The grounds of this statement are these: (1) that these uses are, in general, 
unknown in the poetry except in the poems known to be based on Latin orig¬ 
inals, and are rare even in these; (2) that they are rare in the more original 
prose; (3) that, in the Anglo-Saxon translations from the Latin, the dominant 
influence of the original is demonstrated; and (4) that what we know of these 
constructions in the kindred Germanic languages tends to support the theory 
that these uses in Anglo-Saxon are borrowed from the Latin. 
m. SUBSTITUTES FOR THE INFINITIVE. 
12. In course of time there were developed some Substitutes for the 
Infinitive in Anglo-Saxon. 
(1) Gradually the nominative of the present participle came to be substi¬ 
tuted for the predicative infinitive after verbs of motion (and occasionally of 
rest), com fleogan becoming com fleogende. Despite the encroachment of the 
present participle, the predicative infinitive, contrary to the usual statement, 
survived into Late West Saxon times, and is occasionally found in AClfric. 
(2) Gradually the predicate accusative of the present participle came to be 
used side by side with the predicate infinitive with accusative subject after 
verbs of sense perception, etc. 
(3) The substitution of the predicate nominative of the present participle for 
the predicative infinitive after verbs of motion and of rest seems to have been 
due to these causes: the appositive use of the participle, especially of words 
denoting motion, with verbs of motion; the predicative use of the participle 
in the present and past periphrastic tenses; and the superior clarity, in such 
locutions, of the participle over the infinitive. 
(4) The substitution of the predicate accusative of the present participle 
for the predicative infinitive with accusative subject was due to Latin influence. 
IV. THE INFINITIVE IN THE OTHER GERMANIC 
LANGUAGES. 
13. Despite the incompleteness of my statistics concerning the Infinitive 
in the Other Germanic Languages, they seem to make probable the following 
conclusions:— 
