verbform

plural verbforms

1. alternativeAlternative form of verb form.

   1990, Andries Breunis, The Nominal Sentence in Sanskrit and Middle Indo-Aryan, Brill Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 149, Before we compare these constructions with a PPP connected to a verbform of "to be" in the third person, we shall first discuss the following phenomenon.

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   1983, Thomas M. Carter, Then and Now: The Mechanics of Integration, Historical Conservation Society (Manila), page 112, "Thee/Thou" speech merely substitutes (or were substituted by) some of the old personal pronouns. Also present in "Thee" speech is the occasional ancient verbform.

   1992 August, Kees Hengeveld, "Structure of adverbial clauses", in Betty Devriendt, Louis Goossens, Johan van der Auwera, Complex Structures: A Functionalist Perspective, Walter de Gruyter (1996), →ISBN, page 135, In this and the following tables a "+" represents a finite verbform, a "−" a nonfinite verbform, a "P" indicates that the adverbial relation under investigation can be expressed in a paratactic construction only, and a blank indicates that no data could be obtained for the adverbial relation under consideration.