The language has a productive strategy for creating nouns from verbs. <br><br>For example, in English, <i>John kisses the puppies</i> can be made into a noun phrase by adding <i>-ing</i> to <i>kiss</i>, as in <i>John’s kissing (of) the puppies</i> (Chomsky 1970, Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2008). 
<br><br><b>References</b><br>
Chomsky, Noam. 1970. Remarks on Nominalization. In <i>Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar, </i> 11-61. The Hague: Mouton.
<br>Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2008. Action Nominal Constructions. In Haspelmath et al. 2008, chapter 62.
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