出版社：Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic
摘要：In English, there are a lot of constructions making use of the morpheme - ing , e.g., “gerunds”, present participial constructions, and “gerundive relatives”. This paper tries to present a comprehensive analysis of these NP- ing constructions. Our claim is that - ing has unspecified feature value, which apparently gives rise to two distinct - ings : nominal - ing and INFL - ing . On the basis of this distinction, it will be shown that there are theoretically five subtypes of NP- ing constructions. Our analysis is a superior one, not only for its coverage of data, but in that it relies on no ad hoc stipulations concerning the principles in UG, but reduces the peculiarities of NP- ing constructions to the lexical idiosyncrasies of - ing .
