AN ANALYSIS OF GERUNDS IN LITERATURES
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This study examined the use of gerunds, such as chopping again as when I began chopping again, my axe slipped and cut off my right leg. in English literatures through morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis. While previous studies focused on the use of gerunds in newspapers and international corpora, this study focuses on the use of gerunds in literatures The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2019) and The Secret Garden (2021). This study follows the conceptual framework of cognitive grammar (Dirven & Verspoor, 2004; Radden & Dirven, 2007). An entire 200,000 words is made up of 35 tokens of gerunds extracted from the literatures. The data analysis follows Wongkittiporn and Chitrakara (2018). The results and discussion of gerunds in literatures are classified into different linguistic perspectives. Morphologically, the low frequency of gerunds is explained by lexicalization (Yule, 2006). The use of gerunds in literature are found with four types of syntactic structures, which are the subject, complements of the verb, prepositional phrase complements, and adjunct (Radford, 2009). Semantically, the majority of semantic denotations of gerunds in literatures is simultaneity, onomasiology and activity. Pragmatically, gerunds are used due to horror aequi principle, referring to an avoidance of homonymous linguistic element in an adjacent area.
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