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1 INTRODUCTION: GERUND AS AN “ABSOLUTIVE” It is well known that Late Latin uses the gerund as a substitute for the present participle, for example in Peregr. 15. 5, redirent mature … dicendo psalmos, where the ablative dicendo stands for
The present paper discusses some special cases of gerunds in the attribute position. This phenomenon is rather exceptional, because gerunds usually are defined as being adverbs. Word class shift is generally ruled out for Turkic languages. As will be argued, there might be exceptions from this rule. In this context, constructions based on direct speech on the one hand and some going back to postverbials on the other seem especially interesting.
This paper seeks to give a syntactic analysis of Old Hungarian verbal gerunds. I take the “mixed projection” approach to nominalizations (Bresnan 1997; Borsley & Kornfilt 2000; Alexiadou 2001, among others), whereby the extended vP is embedded under nominal functional categories. I argue that in the verbal part of the gerund there is solid evidence for AspP/PredP dominating VoiceP, but there is no conclusive evidence for a TP being projected. I suggest that the object of the gerundival verb may undergo scrambling to a position above negation, while the subject becomes a derived possessor on the surface. I propose that these gerunds do not contain a nominalizer (see Alexiadou 2005; Alexiadou et al. 2010b; 2011 for this possibility); the extended vP is embedded directly under the nominal functional head Poss.
The paper starts to explore the interrelations within the system of categories of participle and gerund in Hungarian and Croatian as part of a planned research aiming at the complex contrastive description of parts of speech in the two languages. (This problem has hardly been studied so far in a comparative aspect.) The main tendencies and discrepancies in locating participles and gerunds in the system of parts of speech are presented on the basis of Hungarian and Croatian grammars written in the last few decades. In present-day Hungarian and Croatian descriptive linguistics these problems appear with quite different emphasis.
) gerunds, gerundives, verbal adverbs or converbs: free modifiers of verbs or sentences; (d) deverbal nouns , such as agent nouns or action nouns (“gerunds
magyar határozói igenevek és a gerundium [Hungarian adverbial participles and the gerund]. In: Magyar Nyelv 55: 175-81; 343-51. A magyar határozói igenevek és a gerundium [Hungarian adverbial participles and the gerund
Exploring the meaning and productivity of a polysemous prefix
The case of the Modern Greek prepositional prefix para-
, Thanasis . 2012 . Για το νεοελληνικό «γερούνδιο» ή «γερουντίβο» ή «γερουνδιακό» (άλλως πως, «far from the madding gerund»!) [On the Modern Greek “gerund” or “gerundium” or “gerundivum” (in other words, “far from the madding gerund!”)] . In Z
30 411 439 Johnson, Kyle 1988. Clausal gerunds, the ECP and government. In: Linguistic Inquiry 19: 583
real target of the experiment, consisted of verbs different from the ones used as experimental items, and could have one of two forms: Gerund ( N = 8) and Imperfect 2SG ( N = 8). The second set ( N = 48), motivated by the very nature of the test
On the syntactic category of Akan compounds
A product-oriented perspective
. Malouf, Robert . 2000 b. Verbal gerunds as mixed categories in head-driven phrase structure grammar . In R. D. Borsley (ed.) The nature and function of syntactic categories . New York : Academic Press . 133 – 166
