Nominal and verbal gerunds in present-day English: aspectual features and nominal status

Publication date: Available online 2 October 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Liesbet Heyvaert, Charlotte Maekelberghe, Anouk BuyleAbstractIn this paper, we want to add to the comparative description of Present-day English nominal and verbal gerundive nominalizations, by presenting the results of a quantitative, corpus-based analysis of their aspectual features. It will be shown that, in general, the claim that gerunds designate unbounded activities or activities that are in progress cannot be upheld—because a significant number of both nominal and verbal gerunds denote non-durative situations (achievements, semelfactives) or telic ones (accomplishments), and because most gerunds lack explicit markers of 'completeness' or 'ongoingness'. As regards the distinction between n...

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