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2006
Abstract This chapter is adapted from Hudson 2003b, where I offer a WG account of English gerunds1 such as having in (127). (127) (We were talking about) John having a sabbatical. What makes gerunds interesting and challenging is that they combine the internal characteristics of a clause with the external characteristics of a noun phrase.
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Abstract This chapter is adapted from Hudson 2003b, where I offer a WG account of English gerunds1 such as having in (127). (127) (We were talking about) John having a sabbatical. What makes gerunds interesting and challenging is that they combine the internal characteristics of a clause with the external characteristics of a noun phrase.
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What It Means to Verbalize: The Changing Discourse Functions of the English Gerund
Journal of English Linguistics, 2015 The English gerund system consists of two types of gerunds: a nominal gerund (the learning of a language), and a verbal gerund that developed out of the nominal gerund (learning a language).
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Diachronica, 2000
SUMMARY The Latin gerundive has three distinctive properties: (i) agreement with thematic object; (ii) ungrammaticality of lexical thematic subject; and (iii) inability to take both a specifier (determiner) and a complement while infinitives can have both. A case- theoretic account within the Minimalist framework of Chomsky (1995) explains all three
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SUMMARY The Latin gerundive has three distinctive properties: (i) agreement with thematic object; (ii) ungrammaticality of lexical thematic subject; and (iii) inability to take both a specifier (determiner) and a complement while infinitives can have both. A case- theoretic account within the Minimalist framework of Chomsky (1995) explains all three
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On Teaching the Gerund and Gerundive in Latin
Greece and Rome, 1941The task of elucidating the nature and use of the gerund and gerundive is notoriously one of the most difficult which the teacher of Latin has to face. He can draw no analogy between these forms and those used for the same purposes in English or in the other modern languages studied by his pupils; and the twofold antithesis between these two parts of ...
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On the Origin of Gerund and Gerundive in Latin: A New Reassessment
Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2020SummaryThis short paper addresses a very vexed issue, to which a huge literature has been dedicated so far: the origin of the so-called gerunds and gerundives in Latin. Any previous attempt has proved un- conclusive, mainly because of the proliferation of ad hoc rules assumed to account for the nd-forms and even more because of the plethora of ...
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2000
Abstract Introductory. This chapter deals with the many adverbial forms of the verb. The term ‘gerunds’ has been chosen from among the several terms in use, which include ‘deverbal adverbs’, ‘adverbials’, ‘gerundives’, ‘gerundia’, and ‘converbs’, as it has the merit of brevity. Those who are familiar with the gerund in Latin, however,
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Abstract Introductory. This chapter deals with the many adverbial forms of the verb. The term ‘gerunds’ has been chosen from among the several terms in use, which include ‘deverbal adverbs’, ‘adverbials’, ‘gerundives’, ‘gerundia’, and ‘converbs’, as it has the merit of brevity. Those who are familiar with the gerund in Latin, however,
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The Syntax of the Gerund and the Gerundive
Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 1942openaire +1 more source
The Origin of the Gerund and Gerundive
The American Journal of Philology, 1894openaire +1 more source