%0 Book %A Slávka Janigová %D 2021 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %T Syntax of -ing Forms in Legal English %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1105045 %X The study is concerned with the issue of -ing forms in both the theoretical aspect (morpho-syntactic delimitation of the scalar range of -ing forms) and practical aspect (survey of their occurrence in a legal English corpus). The research concentrates on the syntactic analysis of -ing verbal nouns, gerunds and -ing participles, and is aimed to reveal the conditioning factors that influence the selection of a particular type of the nominalisations under analysis. %K -ing nominalisation, Englisch, Rechtssprache, ing, Korpus (Linguistik), Complex condensation, Syntactic analysis, Scalar representation, Suffix %G English