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Under the approach to syntactic nominalization defended in this work, a verb cannot incorporate into a noun following lexical insertion. N cannot host a syntactic affix that has a nominalizing function and consequently subcategorizes for a VP (chapter 3). In this sense, verbs cannot change their categorial specification. Hebrew event nominals have been shown to be purely nominal, although at first glance they seem to manifest some verbal properties (chapter 3).
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Traditionally, the term “construct infinitive”, or “infinitive construct” (Gesenius 1910) also refers to infinitives. As will become clear in section 5.1.2, infinitives and gerunds differ in important respects.
There are minor morphological differences between the verbal form of the infinitive and that of the gerund. For example, stops that are fricativized in certain environments undergo this change when they are the medial root consonant in a gerund, but not in an infinitive (see Berman 1978, among others).
In order to end up with an LF-representation in which the subject is in SpecAgrgooP and the object in SpecAgroP, we must exclude nested movements of the subject (to SpecAgroP) and the object (to SpecAgrgenP). This can be obtained in exactly the same way that parallel nested movements are ruled out in the sentence (see Chomsky 1993 for discussion).
The preposition can determine the time reference of D via a process of unselective binding (in Heim’s 1982 sense, and see also Pesetsky 1987 ). As unselective binders may bind more than one variable, the fact that two gerund clauses can be coordinated under one preposition is not surprising (see (21)); the same preposition is able to bind both D positions.
Hazout (1992) also mentions me’az (‘since’) and ’ad (‘until’) as two additional temporal prepositions that cannot take gerund clauses, but take noun phrases as complements. I disagree with Hazout on this matter, as is clear from example (2) and (i)
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Siloni, T. (1997). Verbal and Nominal Gerunds. In: Noun Phrases and Nominalizations. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8863-8_5
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