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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Gerunds''' are deverbal [[nouns]] which inherit the [[subcategorization properties]] of the corresponding verbs. Moreover, gerunds appear in syntactic positions typical for nouns, although their behaviour is strictly speaking verbal in nature.<br />
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=== Example ===<br />
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English verbs have a gerundive counterpart ending in the suffix -''ing'' (cf. (ii)). These nominalizations in -''ing'', like verbs, can be modified by adverbials, while nouns can only be modified by adjectives (cf. (iii)):<br />
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(i) Tom critized the book<br />
Tom sarcastically criticized the book<br />
(ii) Tom's criticizing the book<br />
Tom's sarcastically/*sarcastic criticizing the book<br />
(iii) Tom's criticism of the book<br />
Tom's *sarcastically/sarcastic criticism of the book<br />
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'''Gerund'''s are also called verbal nouns.<br />
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=== Link ===<br />
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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Gerund&lemmacode=722 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br />
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=== References ===<br />
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* Chomsky, N. 1970. ''Remarks on Nominalization,'' in: Jacobs, R. and P. Rosenbaum (eds.) Readings in English Transformational Grammar, Blaisdell, Waltham, MA.<br />
* Scalise, S. 1984. ''Generative Morphology,'' Foris, Dordrecht.<br />
* Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.<br />
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