The English -ing form, also called (verbal) gerund, is often believed to display a mixture of verbal and nominal properties, thus posing problems for any theory of grammar. I will argue that this is actually not the case for every construction involving the -ing form, but only for two distinct subclasses, -ing forms after genitive subjects and after determiners like no or any. In the other case...

The present paper is concerned with the complementation patterns of four aspectual verbs, i.e. begin, start, continue and cease, each of which co-occurs with two types of non-finite complementizers – the gerund and the to-infinitive. The paper analyses the distributional properties of each pair of the aspectual constructions (e.g. begin to do/ begin doing) with the corpus-based method known as ...

This paper attempts to resolve problems involving distributional properties and endocentricity of English genrund constructions. This paper identifies two syntactic types in English gerunds: nominal gerunds and verbal gerunds. This distinction is based on syntactic and semantic characteristics of each type and is intended to account for the external distribution and endocentricity of the constr...

This study examines two complex syntactic dependencies (complement control and sentence-final temporal adjunct control) and one pragmatic dependency (controlled verbal gerund subjects) in children with ASD. Sixteen high-functioning (HFA) children (aged 6-16) with a diagnosis of autism and no language impairment, matched on age, gender and non-verbal MA to one TD control group, and on age, gende...

In this study, it was intended to investigate the Persian native speakers’ perception of gerunds by three different elicitation techniques i.e., written, audio, and pictorial through translation. Eighty intermediate learners of English were asked to select Persian translation of the gerund formsin these elicitation techniques. They were asked to choose one option from a pair of written first la...

The article homes in on establishing the functional paradigm of non-finite clauses Modern English. data for research has been drawn from English online newspaper articles Evening Standard, Guardian, Times. corpus comprises 254 per 976 thousand words texts under analysis. novelty this investigation lies fact that it views aspect with a as part predicative construction. Non-finite are concise mea...

Introduction It is commonly held that the frequent syntagm consisting of the infinitive construct with l mæd – the so-called liqt l – because of the prefixed preposition  has “a strong value for the direction, the aim, the purpose of an action”, as in Gen 31:19 “now Laban had gone to shear his sheep” (J-M § 124l). At the same time many grammars recognize that in the liqtol syntagm the prepos...

<p>Theoretical linguistics and teaching are concurrent, that is, neither can exist without the other. In other words, decisions made in (foreign) language will inevitably affect how testing evaluation as a concept is designed administered. For example, if curriculum states English foreign teachers need to make distinction between gerund an infinitive classroom teach it such, then, this be...

The focus of this paper is on the proper analysis of lexical and phrasal nominalizations in English and Korean that are built around an identical deverbal element. In English, as is well-known, there are both lexical and phrasal nominalizations that are built around the -ing suffixed form of the verb. In Korean too, there are both lexical and phrasal nominalizations based on the same nominalizi...