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Csaba Ceglédi: On the Constituent Structure of Infinitives and Gerunds in English

94 CSABA CZEGLÉDI c. It would be disgraceful for < John's leaving *that John left *for John to leave to bother us. d. Perhaps < e. I learned about < John's smoking stogies ??that John smokes stogies ??(for John) to smoke stogies John's smoking stogies *John smokes stogies *(for John) to smoke stogies would bother you. f. It's < John's smoking stogies *that John smokes stogies *for John to smoke stogies that I can't abide, that I can't believe, that I won't permit. Another nominal property of gerunds is that they may not contain sentence adverbial PPs: (51) *John's to our delight in his haste for some reason leaving so early didn't distress Sue. Note, however, that nominal relative clauses, also called 'free relatives', may also occur in all the positions illustrated in (50) above, although they cannot be derived from NPs, as Jackendoff (1977) shows. Consider the following examples (cf. Jackendoff 1977 and Abney 1987): (52) a. What would what the FBI found out reveal about John? b. a man to whom what you found out would be a nuisance c. It would be disgraceful for what you found out to be revealed. d. Perhaps what John found out would upset you. e. I heard about what you did. f. It's what you have in your head that counts.