{"id":182,"date":"2010-11-25T12:09:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T16:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blogs\/lx522f10\/?p=182"},"modified":"2010-11-25T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T16:09:54","slug":"gerunds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/2010\/11\/25\/gerunds\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerunds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, there was a question in class about DPs that seem to be able to have adverbs in them, like the subject of <em>John&#8217;s skillfully baking cakes amused me<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t really provide a good answer to how to think about these in class, but I realized that this is actually covered in exercise 1 of the DP chapter in the textbook.  It requires a little bit of &#8220;thinking outside the box&#8221; in a way.  Without posting the answer (since it is a homework problem), there is a clue about what Adger had in mind in the statement of Task 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, there was a question in class about DPs that seem to be able to have adverbs in them, like the subject of John&#8217;s skillfully baking cakes amused me. I didn&#8217;t really provide a good answer to how to think about these in class, but I realized that this is actually covered in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/2010\/11\/25\/gerunds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Gerunds&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}