From noun to verb
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Charlotte Maekelberghe
Abstract
This chapter reassesses the paradigmatic relations between present-day English nominal and verbal gerunds by examining their variation potential at an abstract-schematic level as well as at token-level. Results show that functional overlap is mainly instigated by verbal gerunds taking up more typically nominal uses, thus creating the conditions for variation with the nominal gerund. However, a collexeme analysis reveals that there is actually very little lexical overlap between both gerund types, as nominal gerunds are more restricted in terms of the verbs they can derive from. Thus, while paradigmatic links between nominal and verbal gerunds are present on an abstract-semantic level, their distinct lexical profiles confirm their reorientation to other constructional families.
Abstract
This chapter reassesses the paradigmatic relations between present-day English nominal and verbal gerunds by examining their variation potential at an abstract-schematic level as well as at token-level. Results show that functional overlap is mainly instigated by verbal gerunds taking up more typically nominal uses, thus creating the conditions for variation with the nominal gerund. However, a collexeme analysis reveals that there is actually very little lexical overlap between both gerund types, as nominal gerunds are more restricted in terms of the verbs they can derive from. Thus, while paradigmatic links between nominal and verbal gerunds are present on an abstract-semantic level, their distinct lexical profiles confirm their reorientation to other constructional families.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Major trends in research on the English NP 1
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Determination, modification & complementation
- Refining and re-defining secondary determiners in relation to primary determiners 27
- The rivalry between definiteness and specificity 79
- Post-head compression in noun phrase referring expressions 107
- From noun to verb 135
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Shell nouns & the X-is construction
- Shell nouns as epistemic stance devices in English 171
- Constructional variation and change in N-is focaliser constructions 205
- Premodification in X-is constructions 235
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Binominal constructions
- From an icy hell of a night to a hell of a fine story 279
- Time-measurement constructions in English 311
- Day to day and night after night 363
- Coordinated phrases as dvandvas 395
- Index 429
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Major trends in research on the English NP 1
-
Determination, modification & complementation
- Refining and re-defining secondary determiners in relation to primary determiners 27
- The rivalry between definiteness and specificity 79
- Post-head compression in noun phrase referring expressions 107
- From noun to verb 135
-
Shell nouns & the X-is construction
- Shell nouns as epistemic stance devices in English 171
- Constructional variation and change in N-is focaliser constructions 205
- Premodification in X-is constructions 235
-
Binominal constructions
- From an icy hell of a night to a hell of a fine story 279
- Time-measurement constructions in English 311
- Day to day and night after night 363
- Coordinated phrases as dvandvas 395
- Index 429
