The -ing dynasty: Rebuilding the semantics of nominalizations  

Oleh:

Grimm, Scott ; McNally, Louise

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 25th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Stanford University, May 15-17, 2015, page 82-102.
Topik: nominalization; gerunds; event types
Fulltext: 3048-3784-1-PB.pdf (181.2KB)

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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.

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