A game of give and take: category change on the border between adverbial verbal gerunds and augmented absolutes in English
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DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2018.07.006
Abstract: Abstract This article discusses one of several reasons for the loss of augmentation in English absolute constructions (ACs): the emergence of the verbal gerund (VG) in -ing. The VG was from the start strongly associated… read more here.
Keywords: give take; category; category change; change border ... See more keywords