Title:
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The -ing dynasty: rebuilding the semantics of nominalizations
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Author:
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McNally, Louise, 1965-; Grimm, Scott
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Abstract:
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The nature of -ing nominals has been widely debated since the early days of generative grammar (e.g. Lees 1960, Chomsky 1970), and at least since Vendler (1967), -ing forms also have played a central role in debates over natural language ontology for abstract objects. This paper attempts to simplify the ontology and account for the uses and interpretations a wide range of -ing forms using only a distinction between event types and event tokens. A core insight will be that the different constructions reflect different paths by which the -ing form may come to have type or token reference. A central contrast present among these different paths involves whether the event types/tokens are individuated through nominal morphology or through temporal anchoring. |
Abstract:
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This work was supported by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation grant FFI2013-41301, AGAUR grant 2014SGR00698, and an ICREA Academia award to the second author. |
Subject(s):
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-Nominalization -Gerunds -Event types |
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Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ |
Document type:
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Conference Object Article - Published version |
Published by:
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Cornell University, Linguistic Society of America
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