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.

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The Author: Slávka Janigová, Ph.D., born in 1967 in Slovakia, currently works as an assistant lecturer at the Department of the English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Pavol Jozef safárik University in KoSice (Slovakia). She specialises in English syntax and legal English translation.

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Contents : Degrees of nominalisation, complex condensation - Ing-forms in the projection of time (a diachronic approach) - Inflectional versus derivational nature of the -ing affix (a synchronic approach) - Status of respective types of -ing forms in terms of word-class assignment - Syntactic analysis of a legal English corpus - Summary of the factors conditioning the selection of a particular type.