Timeline for -ing word as modifier of a noun: Verb or attributive/deverbal Noun?
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| Feb 2, 2023 at 20:37 | vote | accept | Taylor B. | ||
| Feb 2, 2023 at 18:10 | comment | added | John Lawler | Almost all of these are fixed phrases, which behave like single words, and have no individual POS for the most part. Popular noun compounds do that, and English is full of them. Unless you're up for serious ontology, noun compounds (even limited to -ing first words) is a very complex subject in English. | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 14:14 | comment | added | BillJ | "Dining-room", "drinking-water", "swimming-pool" and "walking-stick" are compound nouns. The other ing words are probably best ananalysed as verb phrases functioning as attributive modifiers. | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 7:43 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 2, 2023 at 5:04 | answer | added | alphabet | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 4:51 | answer | added | JK2 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 0:46 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 0:29 | comment | added | Barmar | I don't think there's any way to tell from basic principles. The relationship is ideosyncratic, you just need to know them. An opening quotation is not a quotation used for opening, it's a quotation that opens something. A climbing vine is a vine that climbs -- contrast this with climbing wall. | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 0:26 | comment | added | Barmar | Many of them follow that pattern: "Xing Y == Y that's used/intended for Xing". Swimming pool, climbing wall, dating app, walking stick. | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 0:24 | comment | added | Barmar | A gaming computer is a computer intended for gaming (== playing games). | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 0:22 | comment | added | Barmar | I think the distinction you're drawing is very fuzzy. These phrases can be interpreted either way. | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 23:51 | history | edited | Taylor B. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 23:39 | history | asked | Taylor B. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |