German non-finite forms

 Having now looked over the examples in the Bruening paper, I think I understand better what Alec was asking about these German forms.

It's worth noting that the 'German dialects' under discussion are really disparate. I have quasi-intuitions about "Swiss-German" [which itself has many dialects] and Standard German, but the other dialects presented here, e.g. some form of Swabian, sound very foreign to me. In particular, looking at the forms and glosses, it appears that in some of these dialects the "infinitive" employs the ge- prefix reserved for perfect participles in other dialects, with no suffix; and the "supine" employs a suffix represented as "-d", which is perhaps the counterpart of the Standard German -t perfect participle suffix, but with no prefix.These things just sound bizarre to me. (I'm also not sure why some forms are glossed 'Gerund', they don't seem to be distinct forms.) I wish we could see translation counterparts of the very same sentences in the various dialects...