Construction or Constructing? Some Observations on English Deverbal and Gerundial Nouns

Construction or Constructing? Some Observations on English Deverbal and Gerundial Nouns

English deverbal and gerundial nouns are traditionally analysed as instances of verbal nominalisations with a hybrid syntactic and semantic nature: while predominantly having nominal properties, they display some of the verbal characteristics as well. Using relevant examples from English corpora (BN...

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Main Author: Gašper Ilc
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2016-12-01
Series:ELOPE
Subjects:
deverbal nouns
gerundial nouns
gerundial cline
nominalisation
nominal phrase
syntax
Online Access:https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope/article/view/6997

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