I've never heard of CONVERBS! So I did a google and found this website dealing with Mongolian converbs!
http://membres.lycos.fr/brunogml/poppe/po365.htm
Quoted from the above link:
"General Remarks
365. The converbs do not serve as predicates of complete sentences, but only as attributes of verbs, indicating the manner in which the action is being performed, or as logical (not grammatical) predicates of word groups rendered in European languages as subordinate clauses.
The converbs are classified into two groups: the genuine and the pseudoconverbs. The former are fossilized oblique case forms of verbal nouns; the latter are, from the historical viewpoint, purely verbal forms.
The genuine and pseudo-converbs manifest a syntactical difference: while the actor is always designated by the nominative case in constructions with pseudo-converbs he can, under certain circumstances, be designated by the genitive (or accusative) in constructions with genuine converbs.
The genuine converbs are the following : converbum terminale, converbum abtemporale, converbum contemporale, converbum successivum, converbum finale, and converbum praeparativum. The pseudo-converbs are: converbum conditionale, converbum concessivum, converbum imperfecti, converbum modale, and converbum perfecti."
So we now have pro, con, pseudo verbs, and fossilized oblique forms of verbal nouns, this hanglish is wierd.
MarkB
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