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gerund-participle

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gerund-participle (pluralgerund-participles)

  1. (grammar) The form of an English verb that ends in-ing and can function as anoun, anadjective, or aprogressiveverb.
    Synonym:ing-form
    Hypernyms:wordform <form
    Near-synonyms:(in otheroperational definitions)gerund,present participle
    • 2005, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum,A Student's Introduction to English Grammar[1]:
      The gerund-participle ¶ Traditionally (for example, in the grammar of Latin), a gerund is a verb-form that is functionally similar to a noun, whereas a participle is one that is functionally similar to an adjective.
    • 2005, Patrick J. Duffley,The English gerund-participle in cognitive grammar[2]:
      THE TERM 'GERUND-PARTICIPLE' used in the title of this paper is adopted from Huddleston and Pullum (2002:80), who see no reason to give priority to one or the other of the traditional terms used to refer to the verbal uses of the English -ing form illustrated in (1):
    • 2009, Frank Boers, Jeroen Darquennes, Koen Kerremans,Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics[3]:
      The intralinguistic analysis carried out on our sample has revealed that, on average, the English gerund-participle is frequently used to realize circumstance adverbials, which may express a great variety of semantic roles.
    • 2010, Mark Liberman, “Gerunds vs. participles”, inLanguage Log[4]:
      Therefore I was happy when Geoffrey Pullum and Rodney Huddleston, in the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, presented a clear and compelling argument that "A distinction between gerund and present participle can't be sustained" (pp. 80-83 and 1220-1222). They therefore use the merged category "gerund-participle".
    • 2014, Patrick Duffley,Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon[5]:
      This amounted to 176 occurrences of the gerund-participle and 49 of the to-infinitive, an interesting statistic in itself, as it confirms the more noun-like character of the gerund-participle, ...

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