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THE MANY FACES OF ENGLISH -ING - XIN SENNRICH G...

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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