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5. CORPORA AND METHODOLOGY<br />

some cases, however, there are no elements indicating the nature of the –ing<br />

nominalization, or the indicators are ambiguous; such nominalizations will be considered<br />

as structurally ambiguous, as in (119), in which the lack of pre- and post-head dependents<br />

of the head noun measuring prevents us from determining its nature.<br />

(115) and are made by the turning about of the two Poles of the<br />

Zodiaque, which Poles being situated in the Colure of the<br />

Solstices are so farre distant from the Poles of the world, (...) (E2<br />

1597 Blundeville The plaine treatise of the first principles of<br />

geometrie)<br />

(116) And that is a way of making small Globules or Balls of Lead, or<br />

Tin, as small almost as these of Iron or Steel, and that exceeding<br />

easily and quickly, by turning the filings or chips of those Metals<br />

also in perfectly round Globules. (E3 1665 Hooke The life and<br />

work of Robert Hooke)<br />

(117) and then brought the Electric, as son as we could, to settle<br />

notwithstanding its hanging freely at the bottom of the string. (E3<br />

1675-6 Boyle Electricity & magnetism)<br />

(118) but upon the suffering it to suck; it presently fill’d the skin of the<br />

belly, and of the six scolop’d embossments on either side, as full as<br />

it could be stuft; (E3 1665 Hooke The life and work of Robert<br />

Hooke)<br />

(119) but more plainly in my booke of measuring you may see it. (E1<br />

1551 Record The pathvway to knowledge, containing the first<br />

principles of geometrie)<br />

5.3.2. Some problems in the classification of nominalizations<br />

Difficulties may arise when classifying nominalizations according to the constituent<br />

structure of their phrases and, in the case of –ing formations, also regarding their internal<br />

syntax. A full account of the criteria used in the classification of such complex instances is<br />

given below.<br />

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