caa a22 4500 388043156 CHVBK 20180307125028.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199805 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1360674300000708 doi S1360674300000708 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1360674300000708 Fanego Teresa Departamento de Filoloxia Inglesa e Alemana Facultade de Filoloxia Universidade de Santiago de Compostela E-15704 Santiago de Compostela Spain Developments in argument linking in early Modern English gerund phrases [Elektronische Daten] [Teresa Fanego] This paper discusses the internal structure of eModE gerund phrases, with special reference to the verbalization of subjects and objects in the course of the period. It is shown that the gerund's acquisition of common case subjects (‘John looking at me') and of direct objects (‘by seeing Jane') correlates with style, the new verbalized complements being recorded first in the more oral and informal registers. Attention is also paid to the influence of absolute participles on the replacement of PossPs (‘John's looking at me') by NPs as subject arguments, and to the diffusion of direct objects across the various classes of gerunds. The mixed nomino-verbal properties exhibited by many gerundive nominals by the late seventeenth century are considered in detail, and an analysis is proposed which interprets them as determiner phrases (DPs) where the head D can select various categories of complements. Alongside this phrasal type of gerund, it is argued that a clausal one with fully verbal features must also be recognized as part of the grammar of eModE. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 English Language and Linguistics Cambridge University Press 2/1(1998-05), 87-119 1360-6743 2:1<87 1998 2 ELL https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674300000708 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674300000708 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fanego Teresa Departamento de Filoloxia Inglesa e Alemana Facultade de Filoloxia Universidade de Santiago de Compostela E-15704 Santiago de Compostela Spain NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- English Language and Linguistics Cambridge University Press 2/1(1998-05), 87-119 1360-6743 2:1<87 1998 2 ELL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge