TY - JOUR N2 - The present paper focuses on the changing interpretations of the English gerund. Since no method can accurately and uniformly account for the meanings of all instances of existing -ing forms, previous studies have offered approximate characterizations based on small samples. This study looks at the numbers of -ing derivations denoting institutionalized activities, on the assumption that these represent non-eventive readings. The derivations in question are arranged chronologically in terms of their time of coinage to compare changing productivity levels of this process relative to -ry derivations. This count shows that -ing suffi xations outnumber other nominalization processes and this trend has increased in the last two centuries. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/112946/PDF/Ling.Sil.%2040-2019%2010-A.Ptok,%20K.Szczesniak.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/112946 PY - 2019 EP - 172 DO - 10.24425/linsi.2019.129407 KW - historical linguistics KW - participle-gerund construction KW - gradience A1 - Ptok, Aleksandra A1 - Szcześniak, Konrad PB - Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach VL - vol. 40 DA - 2019.09.30 T1 - Reading the reading of the gerund: the share of non-eventive interpretations of -ing nominals SP - 157 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/112946 T2 - LINGUISTICA SILESIANA ER -