This paper examines the history of the ACC- ing gerundive, a subtype of verbal gerund differing formally from both bare gerundives ( I enjoyed reading the paper ) and POSS- ing gerundives ( I was surprised at Jane’s arriving late ) in having an overt subject argument either in the common case, if it is a full noun phrase (Two people worrying about each other, with no external diversion, brews a deadly atmosphere ) or in the accusative case, if it is a personal pronoun ( You can’t prevent me telling the truth ). Findings from a corpus-based study show that early instances of ACC- ing gerundives most often functioned as preverbal sentential subjects and served as arguments to causative predicates such as brew , make and oblige . Based on this evidence, it is argued that ACC- ing gerundives have emerged as an intersection of a number of pre-existing constructions, most especially a subtype of absolute participle, now obsolete, that encoded causative (factive) semantics and preceded its superordinate clause. The development of the new gerundive subtype from this participial source, which proceeded as a succession of small discrete steps, can be fruitfully accounted for as a case of constructional change, along the lines proposed in Hilpert (2013) and Traugott & Trousdale (2013).

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重新审视大补语转变：ACC-inggerundives的结构化

这篇论文研究了 ACCing 动名词的历史，这是一种口头动名词的亚型，与裸动名词（我喜欢阅读这篇论文）和 POSSing 动名词（我对 Jane 迟到我很惊讶）在形式上有明显的主题争论不同。无论是在普通情况下，如果它是一个完整的名词短语（两个人互相担心，没有外在的转移，酝酿着一种致命的气氛）或者在宾格中，如果它是一个人称代词（你不能阻止我告诉真相）。一项基于语料库的研究结果表明，ACCing gerundives 的早期实例最常作为动词前的句子主语，并作为对因果谓词（如 brew、make 和 none）的论证。根据这个证据，有人争辩说，ACCing 动名词已经成为许多预先存在的结构的交集，尤其是绝对分词的一个子类型，现在已经过时了，它编码使（事实）语义并在其上级从句之前。根据 Hilpert (2013) 和 Traugott & Trousdale (2013) 提出的思路，从这个参与性来源发展出新的 gerundive 亚型，它是作为一系列小的离散步骤进行的，可以作为结构变化的一个案例进行卓有成效的解释.