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

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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Maekelberghe, Charlotte,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 343
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 276 p.)
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Table of 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

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