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The Present-day English Gerund System : A Cognitive-Constructionist Account / Charlotte Maekelberghe.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 343Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (IX, 276 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110686500
  • 9783110686814
  • 9783110686661
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1313 .M34 2020
  • PE1313 .M34 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I: Preliminaries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The gerund -- 3. Corpus data -- Part II: A multifunctional perspective -- Introduction -- 4. Reference -- 5. Aspect -- 6. The indefinite nominal gerund -- Part III: A variationist perspective -- Introduction -- 7. Token-level gerund constructions -- 8. Gradience and variation in the gerund system -- Part IV: Conclusions -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I: Preliminaries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The gerund -- 3. Corpus data -- Part II: A multifunctional perspective -- Introduction -- 4. Reference -- 5. Aspect -- 6. The indefinite nominal gerund -- Part III: A variationist perspective -- Introduction -- 7. Token-level gerund constructions -- 8. Gradience and variation in the gerund system -- Part IV: Conclusions -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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