Timeline for Grammatical term for a noun coming after an infinitive?
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| Jun 4, 2021 at 7:55 | comment | added | Ubu English | It's nonsense alright but, this nonsense is taught widely in K-12 and ESL programs and texts. Subjects and objects are always things, and this is what they have in common with nouns, which are also always things. Participles, infinitives and clause can all take the role of subject but this does not mean they convert to nouns because they are Subject or object things. Verbs used as S or O never lose their verbal properties, they can and often do take subjects and verb complements, and verbal modifiers too. They are very verbal and it makes no sense to say they are NP. | |
| Sep 9, 2018 at 13:24 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | If S = NP VP, and you have an infinitive clause acting as that sentence’s subject, what is it if not an NP? My model of these things must be lacking some nuance that yours supports if the sentence subject can be something other than an NP, so I'm truly interested in learning where you're coming from here. | |
| Sep 9, 2018 at 7:26 | history | answered | BillJ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |