Abstract
English higher verbs impose constraints on the form of their nonfinite complements (i.e., gerunds and infinitives) functioning as objects of the verbs. A number of linguists and grammarians, notably Bolinger (1968) and Wood (1965), have looked at the proposition and tried to identify a principle that can be used to account for the underlying semantic distinction. The strategies of Bolinger and Wood are insufficient to explain the occurrence of the nonfinite complements following various higher verbs or to express the subtleties of the phenomenon. The objective of this article is to analyze strategies about higher verbs and their nonfinite complements with submerged logical subjects and resolve the apparent contradiction between the positions of Bolinger and Wood. Bolinger (1968) formulated the hypothesis that the infinitive very often ex
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