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- Title
READING THE READING OF THE GERUND: THE SHARE OF NON-EVENTIVE INTERPRETATIONS OF -ING NOMINALS.
- Authors
PTOK, ALEKSANDRA; SZCZEŚNIAK, KONRAD
- Abstract
The present paper focuses on the changing interpretations of the English gerund. Since no method can accurately and uniformly account for the meanings of all instances of existing -ing forms, previous studies have offered approximate characterizations based on small samples. This study looks at the numbers of -ing derivations denoting institutionalized activities, on the assumption that these represent non-eventive readings. The derivations in question are arranged chronologically in terms of their time of coinage to compare changing productivity levels of this process relative to -ry derivations. This count shows that -ing suffixations outnumber other nominalization processes and this trend has increased in the last two centuries.
- Subjects
READING; NOMINALS (Grammar); TRANSLATING &; interpreting; SEMANTICS; CHRONOLOGY
- Publication
Linguistica Silesiana, 2019, Vol 40, p157
- ISSN
0208-4228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24425/linsi.2019.129407