Case Licensing in Gerundive Constructions

This paper is designed to examine Case assigning mechanism of gerundive constructions in English. The main focus is on Case licensing in the Acc-ing construction. After examining the data which lead to the conclusion that there is no inside Case assigner for the Acc-ing construction, I explore the possibility of the subject of the construction being assigned Case by the outside assigner through transmission. I propose that the prepositional complement- izer plays an important role in transmitting Case from the outside of the construction. I further explore the parallelism between infinitive constructions and gerundive constructions.