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The Present-day English Gerund System
A Cognitive-Constructionist Account
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Charlotte Maekelberghe
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
This study offers a first comprehensive synchronic account of the Present-day English gerundial system. Most synchronic studies of gerunds have hitherto focused on the verbal gerund, scrutinizing its categorial status or comparing it with other non-finite clausal structures. A systematic comparison with its nominal counterpart, however, is lacking. Based on a detailed empirical analysis of lexico-grammar and semantics, this study develops an innovative cognitive-constructionist model of the English gerund system which depicts the usage profiles of nominal and verbal gerunds in terms of probabilistic trends rather than by means of categorical labels. It is shown that a better understanding of the functioning of the English gerund system requires a description that operates on multiple levels, accounting for both the abstract construal gerunds can impose on an event as well as the token-level constraints on variation between the two gerund types. This multifaceted approach, it is argued, not only offers a new perspective on the configuration of ing-forms in Present-day English, it can also be of relevance to the description of other complex grammatical structures.
Author / Editor information
Charlotte Maekelberghe, KU Leuven, Brussels, Belgium.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
VII - Part I: Preliminaries
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1. Introduction
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2. The gerund
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3. Corpus data
39 - Part II: A multifunctional perspective
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Introduction
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4. Reference
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5. Aspect
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6. The indefinite nominal gerund
131 - Part III: A variationist perspective
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7. Token-level gerund constructions
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8. Gradience and variation in the gerund system
217 - Part IV: Conclusions
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9. Conclusion
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Appendix
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References
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Index
275
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eBook published on:
September 21, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9783110686661
Hardcover published on:
September 21, 2020
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110686500
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
9
Main content:
276
Illustrations:
41
Coloured Illustrations:
1
Tables:
28
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0
Keywords for this book
Nominalization and Verbalization; Grammatical Variation; Syntax-Semantics Interface
Audience(s) for this book
Academics/students in the domain of English linguistics, researchers working within Cognitive Linguistics
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