A defective verb is a verb that lacks some grammatical conjugation.
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This is a highly defective verb and only exists in the infinitive.
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Morris Halle called this defective verb paradigm an example of an accidental gap.
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Moreover, if the future does not exist ( defective verbs ) neither will the conditional.
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:: Off the top of my head, this looks like a confusion between defective verbs and modal verbs.
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By the way, perhaps we also need an article on defective verbs, which I see we don't have yet.
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In English, modal verbs are called defective verbs because of their incomplete conjugation : they have a narrower range of functions than ordinary verbs.
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Because of that dualism, some grammars ( chiefly Serbian ones ) treat " jesam " as a defective verb having only present tense.
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The imperfect subjunctive is always constructed from the past historic; hence, if the past historic does not exist ( defective verbs ) neither will the imperfect subjunctive.
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On the other hand, modal verbs ( such as " can " and " must " ) are defective verbs, being used only in a limited number of forms.
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