A STUDY ON-ING CONSTRUCTIONS

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In the present article I propose a unified analysis of all constructions containing the -ing clause. For that purpose, I propose a set of grammatical categories PRP^*, PRPP, and PRP. By assuming such a set of separate grammatical categories, we are able to account for the varius grammatical peculiarities of the -ing clause. Which are different from those of other sentential complement constructions. We can explain the similarity and difference between PRO-ING, POSS-ING and ACC-ING constructions with a nominal function and also the similarity and difference of nominal -ing constructions with other adjectival and adverbial -ing constructions. Furthermore, our analysis gets rid of the Affix Hopping, which is to be included in the morphological component if the affix -ing should be treated by the rule.