Functional-semantic analyses of the infinitive in english INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………….3 CHAPTER I. SEMANTIC CONTENT OF THE INFINITIVE FORMS Description and usage of infinitive….………………...………………….…5 To plus infinitive construction……………..……..………………………..11 CHAPTER II. SEMANTIC SHIFTS WITHIN INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH 2.1 Semantic process within infinitive….……………………..………………….19 2.2 Syntactic properties of infinitive constructions..…………….…………….…21 CONCLUSION …………………………………………………………………..23 REFERENCES …………………………………………………………………...25