Terms "gerund" and "verbal adverb"

[oprokop at TEMPLE.EDU]

In the теорграмматика course at my ин.яз we were taught that 
gerund is (was?) a verbal form that performs functions of a
noun (Smoking is bad for you.) but, unlike a verbal noun,
cannot have plural forms or be used with articles.  (They had
a meeting. Meeting Hilary made his day.) Unlike gerund, a
verbal noun cannot take a direct object; in other words,
gerund has more verbal qualities than a verbal noun does. 
Verbal adjectives are participles that modify nouns (People
talking loudly on their cell phones are so annoying!). Verbal
adverbs serve as adverbial modifiers (He entered the room 
talking loudly on his cell phone).
That the truth according to my иняз professors. 

Olia Prokopenko,
531 Anderson Hall, 
FGIS, Temple University
1114 W.Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
te. 215-204-1760


---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 05:11:02 +0000
>From: Jacee Cho <moscow3000 at HOTMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Terms "gerund" and "verbal
adverb"
>To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
>
>Hi Zhenya,
>
>Gerund can be verbal adverb or participle or both
depending
on languages. It is verbal adverb in French and
Esperanto. But
in English, if I remember correctly (from my
Linguistics
course a long long time ago), gerund is a nominal
form of a
verb. So it would be Russian "otglagolnoe
sushestvitelnoe"
(verbal noun), and verbal adverb is "deeprechastie".
So, for
example, you should be able to use gerund as a
subject or
object in English since it has a noun-like quality.
(Smoking
is bad, I don't like smoking). Verbal adverb should
be used
instead of a clause.
>
>In some Russian textbooks...especially old
ones....you see
the term "gerund" often in a broad sense for verbal
nouns,
participles and verbal adverbs. As far as I know the
term
"gerund" is used less frequently in the Russian
textbooks
nowadays and they try to distinguish them as they
are indeed
different when it comes to their syntactic roles.
>
>
>Jacee
>
>Ji-Hyeon Jacee Cho University of Iowa Iowa City, IA
52242
319-594-4315 "Soon It Shall Also Come To Pass">
Date: Tue, 5
Feb 2008 22:06:29 -0600> From:
evgeny-pareshnev at UIOWA.EDU>
Subject: [SEELANGS] Terms "gerund" and "verbal
adverb"> To:
SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU> > Dear SEELANGS, > > Could
somebody tell
me about the difference between English terms
"gerund" and
"verbal adverb" as relates to the Russian
"deeprichastie", and
what is the principal difference between these
terms? The
thing is, some textbooks for Russian use the term
"gerund" and
other textbooks have term "verbal adverb". Thank you
in
advance.> > > >
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Dept. of French, German, Italian, and Slavic 
531 Anderson Hall
Temple University
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