El gerundio independiente
ISSN: 0212-7636, 2171-6692
Year of publication: 1994
Issue: 10
Pages: 165-178
Type: Article
More publications in: ELUA: Estudios de Lingüística. Universidad de Alicante
Abstract
This paper deals with certain constructions in which gerund seems to function as a verbal head in a independent sequence, not governed syntactically. First of all, we proceed to a classification of the sequences according to two main factors: grammatical modality and utterance type (contextual and not contextual). Afterwards, we analyze syntactically the G.I. constructions, establishing the gerund function and kind of syntactic unit. We also approach the semantics of the independent gerund and, finally, we make differences between G.I. sequences and other similar constructions.