Some languages, such as English, Swedish and German (to some extent) have markers that sometimes appear before infinitives. Some languages might even have them appear before all their infinitives.
This seems to be a device that seldom is used by conlangers to add any redundancy - how about having separate markers for transitive infinitives, yet like in English not always having the marker appear?
Or how about having it show congruence with the inherent aspect of the verb - e.g. distinguishing punctual verbs such as 'to hit' from more static ones like 'to sit' by different markers, maybe 'to hit', but 'for to sit'?
This doesn't even seem particularly unlikely to come about!
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