Categorial shift via aspect and gender change in deverbal nouns

Publication date: Available online 13 September 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Gianina Iordăchioaia, Martina WernerAbstractIn this paper we are concerned with the effects of categorial shift on action deverbal nouns formed by means of the suffix -ing in English and its counterpart -ung in German in the history of the two languages. While the two cognate suffixes exhibit similar degrees of categorial shift in terms of the coarse properties that they preserve from the base verbal category or acquire from the new nominal category, they turn out to exhibit opposite preferences with respect to the aspectual value of the base verb that they attach to, with subtle correlated effects in their morphosyntactic and semantic behavior. Specifically, -ing derives action nominals that highlight...

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