To ask the question more exactly, is there a term for a form of the verb that is a) not marked for tense, and b) can syntactically pattern like a noun-phrase or like a noun-modifier depending on the syntactic context? The term I'm looking for need not be uniformly applicable and unambiguous for...

First,I want to add some background. I live in China now,and in China,linguistics is another story.Most of the linguistics courses Chinese university provided are ambiguous,chaotic and lack inner logic.There are mainly two courses provided in undergraduate level: 1 Contemporary Chinese language ...

Please don't close this question,I am willing to update and edit this question The scientific language is almost english now,and in China,we use simplified Chinese to write scientific textbooks,teach courses and do alomst anything.Let's take the simplest one,single variable calculus,I have used ...