The modal verb hougje ‘to need’ is the only modal which may select a to-infinitive instead of a bare infinitive. Some examples are given below:

In these examples, the selecting verb is finite, and it occupies a position at the beginning of the clause. If the selecting verb is not finite, it doesn’t select a to-infinitive but a bare infinitive. Some examples are given below:

These examples also illustrate the lack of the IPP-effect, and they show that the main verb precedes the perfect participle of the modal auxiliary in the verb cluster. The examples also show that the modal verb doesn’t select any arguments itself, beyond selecting the to-infinitival clause. The clause union of a modal with a to-infinitive exhibits the arguments and restrictions on arguments of the main verb. The last example also shows that the modal and the main verb may form an idiom. This implies that the modal verb directly selects the main verb as a constituent. Correspondingly, the main verb can be preposed as an independent constituent, as in the following example:

In embedded clauses as in main clauses, the tensed modal selects a to-infinitive:

It seems that the bare infinitive tends to appear in the company of forms of hougje ‘need’ which are not finite. The to-infinitive appears in the company of finite forms, both in main clauses and in embedded clauses. The choice of bare infinitive or to-infinitive doesn’t have any effect on the word order in the verbal cluster at the end of the middle field: it is consistently head-final. The modal verb obligatorily forms one clause with the to-infinitival verb which it selects. Instead of hougje ‘need’, the German interference bruke ‘need’ can also be heard, as in the following example:

Note that the modal, though finite, doesn’t combine here with a to-infinitive but with an ordinary infinitive.

The evidential verb skiene is a raising verbs, which selects a to-infinitive. Two examples are given below:

Here the subject argument of the tensed verb skiene ‘seem’ is the NP, which receives its thematic role from the AP swäk ‘feeble’ in the first example and from the to-infinitive (the thematic role of subject) in the second example. The intermediary auxiliary tou wezen ‘to be’ also functions as a raiding auxiliary. Note that the word order is strictly head final: the tensed evidential verb is found at the end of the verb cluster at the end of the middle field.

Verbs like to begin, to fail and to continue describe the situation of an event in time. These verbs are unambiguously raising verb, if the action is not volitional. An example is given below:

The to-infinitival verb is usually found to the left of the verb cluster, but recent sources such as Gretchen Grosser also have examples with the to-infinitive placed to the right of the verb cluster:

This may be due to interference, since the verb ounfange comes from German (anfangen), and it is ousting native beginne ‘to begin’.