Finite verb phrases: a) Finite VPs can occur as the VP of independent clauses b) Finite VPs have tense contrast c) There is a person concord and number concord between the subject of a clause and the finite VP. d) Finite VPs contain, as their first or only word, a finite verb form which may be either an operator or a simple present or past form. DO-support is used in forming negative and interrogative constructions. e) Finite VPs have mood, which indicates the factual, nonfactual, or counterfactual status of the predication. - the indicative mood - the imperative mood - the subjunctive mood Non-finite verb phrases: The infinitive ((to) walk), the ing participle (walking), and the ed participle (walked) are the nonfinite forms of the verb. a) Nonfinite VPs do not occur as the VP of an independent clause. b) Nonfinite VPs have no tense or mood distinctions. c) Nonfinite VPs cannot occur in construction with a subject of a main clause.
philosophy, moral judgments are only evincings or ventings, semantically just like groans, grunts of protest, cheers, and the like. If so, then such "factually defective" sentences do not have truth-values. So a T-sentence directed upon one ("`Murder is wrong' is true iff murder is wrong") should come out false or anomalous.4 Reply to the second rejoinder It is easy enough for the truth-condition theorist who is also an emotivist (or whatever) to restrict her/his truth theory against nonfactual sentences in the first place. But contrariwise, one may argue from the general plausibility of truth-conditional semantics (if one believes in it) to the implausibility of emotivism and other views that deny truth-value to perfectly grammatical declaratives. Objection 2 Davidson talks as if the right-hand sides of his T-sentences will be written in English, or in the theorist's own natural language whatever it may be, so that they can be readily seen to be correct or incorrect
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