Non-finite verbal forms in Mongolic languages
For the three Mongolic languages, the non-finite verbal forms are characterized as relativizing the verbal categories tense, mood, and person in reference to main predicates. The two large classes of non-finite verbal forms common for our languages are converbs and participles / action nouns.
Converbs as non-finite verbal forms occur in adverbial clauses; polyfunctional participles occur as predicates in the attributive, adverbial or complement clauses. Additionally, they have developed diachronically, e.g., through a stage of analytic temporal and aspectual constructions, a secondary function in independent clauses so that some of them are regularly used as finite predicates.