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5. CORPORA AND METHODOLOGY<br />

(122) (...) I have had opportunity as yet of observing, reserving the<br />

prosecution and enlarging on particulars till a more fit<br />

opportunity; (E3 1665 Hooke The life and work of Robert Hooke)<br />

(123) And the first parte of the night is the space betwixt the Suns going<br />

down and his coming againe to the Meridian, (E2 1597 Blundevile<br />

A plaine treatise of the first principles of cosmographie)<br />

b. The coordinated construction shows ellipsis, but it can be assumed that all the<br />

dependents are shared by all the nominal heads. This is the case with the following<br />

examples:<br />

(124) HOW TO FINDE OUT THE TIME OF THE SUNNES RISING<br />

AND SETTING, AND THEREBY THE LENGTH OF THE<br />

ARTIFICIALL DAY. (E2 1597 Blundevile A plaine treatise of the<br />

first principles of cosmographie)<br />

(125) He also forbad him eating and drinking at vnaccustomed houres:<br />

(E2 1602 Clowes Treatise for the artificiall cure of struma)<br />

In (124) the PossP the sunnes is a pre-head dependent of both –ing formations, rising and<br />

setting. Hence, for statistical purposes, both nominals will be analyzed as having pre-head<br />

dependents. (125), in turn, illustrates the use of two –ing nominalizations sharing the same<br />

post-head dependent at unaccustomed hours, even though the temporal adverbial appears<br />

only after the second one.<br />

c. The coordinated construction shows ellipsis and is also “asymmetric,” that is, not<br />

all the dependents are shared by the heads of the construction. This third option is<br />

illustrated in (126)-(129) below:<br />

(126) Nor will any part of this Hypothesis seem strange to him that<br />

considers, First, that either hammering, or filing, or otherwise<br />

violently rubbing of Steel, will presently make it so hot as to be<br />

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