gerundal
adjEtymology From gerund + -al.
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Being or pertaining to a gerund.
- The difference between these forms is, however, purely phonetic, since the gerund may also be mutated and the infinitive may appear in gerundal form ...1943, Clarence Paschall, The Semasiology of Words Derived from the Indo-European *nem-:
- c. Cartier's defeating Dugué is significant (gerundal or verbal noun clause) d. Nelson saw Cartier defeating Dugué (participial clause)1985, Timothy Shopen, Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 2, Complex Constructions, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 43: