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The Many Faces of English -ing (Hardcover)
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The Many Faces of English -ing (Hardcover)
Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
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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 differences between participles
and adjectives, which in the past have prompted linguists to draw a
category distinction between them, are in reality due to the
non-prototypical semantics of participles - a feature also found in
other types of adjectives, with strikingly identical effects. This
analysis then accounts for the word formation of adjectives such as
boring, tired, drunk, which has always been mysterious. The book
investigates the consequences of this analysis for our
understanding of gerunds and V-ing-N compounds. With its
comprehensive study of -ing forms, the book calls into question a
number of widely-held assumptions - regarding the distinction
between derivation and inflection, and the role of semantics in
syntactic and morphological analysis. This book is of great
interest to researchers and students in linguistics interested in
morphology, syntax, semantics, lexical categorisation.
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