El gerundio independiente
ISSN: 0212-7636, 2171-6692
Año de publicación: 1994
Número: 10
Páginas: 165-178
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: ELUA: Estudios de Lingüística. Universidad de Alicante
Resumen
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.