Fróðskaparrit - 01.01.1968, Side 80

On Some Cases of Interaction
between the Germanic Non-Finite
and Finite Verbal Forms
To Academician Prof. Dr., Dr. h. c.
V. M. Schirmunsky on the occasion of
his 75th birthday.
By G. S. Scur
As is known, in all the Germanic languages, first of all in
the group of modal verbs, there exist non-finite forms derived
from finite verbal forms. In these languages are also observed
changes in the finite forms determined by the nature of non-
finite forms. This testifies to the existence in these languages
of the interaction between the non-finite and finite verbal
forms. Among the non-finite forms, derived from the finite
ones, are the forms of inf. I and II in -u and in -i in Icelandic.
Cf. inf. I skulu, skuli, inf. II skyldu, skyldi; monosyllabic inf.
I in Danish kan, in Afrikaans kan, in Scottish can; the forms
of inf. I, derived from preterite: Danish matte, Swedish masta
and the forms of inf. II in Scottish cood, cuid; in German
dialects inf. II waren and the mutated forms of inf. I in
High German kónnen, mógen, etc. which were discussed by
many scholars1). All these cases give reason to suppose the exi-
H. Kuhn. Die altnordischen Infinitive Praeteriti. »Zeitschrift fiir
deutsches Altertum«, Bd. 76, 1939; L. L. Hammerich. Ober die Modal-