The Many Faces of English -ing /

The Many Faces of English -ing / / Xin Sennrich.

The book offers a new angle on long-standing questions about the categorial status of English participles and gerunds. The book makes a major point: participles are not verb forms which behave like adjectives, but actually are adjectives, linked with verbs via derivation. It argues that observed dif...

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Sennrich, Xin,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 111
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 203 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Theoretical background
  • 3 Adjectives
  • 4 Participles
  • 5 Consequences of analysing participles as adjectives
  • 6 The categorial status of gerunds
  • 7 Distinguishing gerunds from present participles
  • 8 Drinking water and dancing girl: Verb-ing-Noun compounds and noun phrases
  • 9 Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Data sources
  • Author index
  • Subject index

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