Publications

Publication details [#1587]

Bolinger, Dwight. 1979. The jingle theory of double'-ing'. In Allerton, D.J., Edward Carney and David Holdcroft, eds. Function and context in linguistic analysis: A Festschrift for William Haas. Cambridge University Press. pp. 41–56.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

acceptability | suffix | verb phrase

Language as a subject

Annotation

An attempt to explain the conditions for the acceptability/non-acceptability of the occurrence of repetitions of the suffix '-ing' in verb phrases.