Aspectual features and categorial shift: deverbal nominals in German and English

Publication date: Available online 27 October 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Ulrike DemskeAbstractThe point of departure of this paper is the claim by Heyvaert, Maekelberghe & Buyle (this issue) that the suffix -ing has no aspectual meaning in English gerunds. Rather, the interpretation of nominal and verbal gerunds depends, so they argue, on situation or viewpoint aspect, a claim that contradicts the wide-spread view that the aspectual meaning of English gerunds is brought about by the nominalizing suffix. The present paper addresses the issue from a comparative perspective, focusing on German ung-nominals: while they share aspectual features with their English counterparts, empirical evidence from productivity, distribution, and argument linking shows (i) that the derivational s...

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