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5. CORPORA AND METHODOLOGY
(110) But noble Ipocras sayth, that Surgerie is hande working in mans
body; (E1 1548 Vicary The anatomie of the body of man)
(111) M. Borrough in his discourse of the variation of the Compasse,
defineth the Magneticall Meridian to bee a great Circle, which
passeth through the Zenith and the Pole of the load stone called in
Latine Magnes, (E2 1597 Blundeville A plaine treatise of the first
principles of cosmographie)
(112) The true maner and making of Ladanum. (E2 1602 Clowes
Treatise for the artificial cure of struma)
(113) A Tertian beginneth with rigour like the pricking of Needles, and
endeth with vaporous sweat. (E2 1573 Partridge Treasurie of the
commodious conceits Surgery)
(114) (...) but touchynge general instrumentes, those which are in most
vse and ought to be had in redynes of the Chirurgian are theis:
incision sheares, an incision knife, a flewme, a lance, (...) and all
this serue to cut and enlarge a wounde: (E1 1563 Gale Antidotaire
Surgery)
c. Their internal syntax. This parameter of classification only applies to –ing
nominalizations, due to their complex nature (see Chapter 2). Hence, –ing formations can
be considered as: i) nominal (cf. [115], in which the –ing form turning shows features
typical of nouns, namely, it has the definite article the as pre-head dependent and the PP of
the two Poles of the Zodiaque as post-head dependent), ii) verbal (cf. [116], in which the
head noun making shows verbal features, such as governing NP objects), or iii) mixed
nomino-verbal. Furthermore, within the nomino-verbal constructions, two different
subtypes can be distinguished (see Section 2.3 above): i) POSS-ing constructions, as in
(117), where the –ing nominalization has the possessive its as pre-head dependent and is
postmodified by the adverb freely, and ii) MIX constructions such as (118), in which the
–ing nominalization has verbal properties such as governing an NP object (it), together
with nominal properties such as having the determinate article as pre-head dependent. In
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