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I did not specifically record information concerning occurrences of FEIs in nonfinite structures. In general, FEIs can be catenated as infinitives or -ing forms without destroying the gestalt:

Or some writers felt they had earned the right in the Seventies, and now had the duty, to participate in the reassessment of the Left, if necessary by washing dirty linen in public . Most writers have done a bit of both. I was more inclined to the latter than the former. (OHPC: journalism)

In some cases, nonfinite structures are commoner than finite ones. Add insult

to injury occurs in OHPC in the forms shown in Table 5.12. Note that the infinitive form functions as a sentence adverbial:

Ron Atkinson's Sheffield Wednesday received a nasty shock away to Cambridge United in their fifth round tie, United going in front after eighteen minutes through Dublin, and Wednesday were to receive another rude shock seven minutes after the break when Philpot made it two nil. To add insult to injury , Taylor scored a third for Cambridge twelve minutes from time and then seconds from the final whistle Dublin scored a fourth for Cambridge United. (OHPC:

transcribed broadcast journalism)

A much grander house, the property of a firm of solicitors, suffered similar treatment. Again, original, perfectly sound wooden parts were destroyed and, to add insult to injury , plastic, press-moulded doors inserted. (OHPC: journalism)

5.6.4 Embedding

Embedding involves the relegation of part of an FEI to a relative clause, perhaps elided, and dependent on a component noun in the FEI, or to a catenated infinitive or cleft or pseudocleft structure: see Newmeyer ( 1972: 300f.), Nunberget al. ( 1994: 501). Some isolated examples from OHPC are:

Another straw at which we can clutch is that if real snow arrives in the near future it will be falling on cold slopes and so will last

reasonably well. (OHPC: journalism)

TABLE 5.12. Forms of add insult to injury in OHPC

add* insult to injury finite 12 tokens

add insult to injury after modal verb 2 tokens

to add insult to injury infinitive 11 tokens

adding insult to injury nonfinite -ing form 5 tokens adding of insult to injury verbal noun 1 token

Yes, what's he doing about his words then? Any actions that are speaking louder than his words? (OHPC: transcribed radio broadcast)

It is not, however, easy to contemplate putting whole federations out of action. That is a bullet on which the Arthur Golds of this world have steadfastly failed to bite . (OHPC: journalism) The question begged by all these glowing predictions is whether they will ever be fulfilled. (OHPC: journalism)

Establishing even a temporary England succession to No. 8 Dean Richards is as painful as the big man's dodgy shoulder and Dean Ryan's early return stirs up waters they themselves have muddied since David Egerton appeared against Fiji. (OHPC: journalism)

This may be a hard bullet for the left to bite , but there is no question of what families want. (OHPC: journalism)

These examples are discoursally well formed, and the embedding can be explained in terms of thematization and cohesion. However, such

transformations are fairly rare amongst FEIs. The following examples are indeterminate. They may be transformations of put up a fight, kick the habit, and be up to one's tricks, and symptomatic of the weakening of the gestalts; alternatively they may simply evidence senses of put up, kick, and (be) up to:

The fight put up by the Health and Safety Commission to get more money saw niggardly extra funding at the end of the last year.

(OHPC: journalism)

Apart from grey hair, a big distinction between the younger, more carefree student travellers and the escapees is that the latter have a work habit which is hard to kick . (OHPC: journalism)

Do you imagine I don't know all the tricks you are up to , Toby, all your little games? (OHPC: fiction)

5.6.5 Pronominalization

It is normally the case that fixed nominal groups in FEIs are not

pronominalized. A few isolated cases such as put one's foot in one's mouth/put

one's foot in it can be analysed as cases of variation rather than

pronominalization: see Section 6.1.2. Fraser and Ross ( 1970: 264f.) observe that some FEIs, for example, get wind of something and set fire to something, can never be pronominalized, whereas others allow pronominalization where there is clear anaphoric reference. This relates to the question of idiomaticity type and the semantic depletion (in these cases) of the component verbs. Pulman comments that there is a correlation between pronominalization potential and potential for internal modification ( 1993:

253 ), so that, to use his examples, while He turned the tables on me and then

I turned them on him is acceptable, I'll keep an eye on him and one on her too

is not (although Malcolm Coulthard suggests (personal communication) that I'll

keep an eye on him while you keep one on her is plausible). Alford points out (

1971: 573) that a noticeadvertisement Nailbiters just can't kick it alone is meaningless without knowledge of the expansion kick the habit, but that it is nevertheless an example of pronominalization with extratextual reference. See Nunberget al. ( 1994: 501 ff.) for further discussion of pronominalization and ellipsis.

It may simply be that the tight relationship between lexicogrammatical form and meaning in FEIs precludes pronominalization which might obscure the gestalt. In the following isolated examples, the missing nominal group occurs in the immediately preceding text, and so the reference is clear:

Jonathan Gili film for Forty Minutes 'All about Ambridge' ( BBC 2), which fleshed out the bones of character outlines with a few actor's CVs and offered receding hairlines to set alongside the voices, should have clarified the waters, but ended up muddying them even further. (OHPC: journalism)

So Europe is being carried towards a durable system of fixed exchange rates on the tide of history. Mr Lawsonwas swimming with that tide . Mrs Thatcheris swimming against it . (OHPC: journalism)

The rest of us could never make up our minds whether Sol had

simply misunderstood Jackson (English was not his mother-tongue), or whether he had deliberately chosen this method of spiking the Communist guns . In any event it spiked them . (OHPC:

non-fiction)

Spin-doctors have been keen to point out that the two men have met six times at various summits, and that Canada's competent

ambassador in Washington is the prime minister's nephew. Anyway, if there is ice, Mr Clintonis breaking it with a visit to the Canadian capital on February 23rd and 24th. (BofE: written journalism) A: I've got a bone to pick with you .

B: What?

A: No, I'll pick it with you tomorrow. (telephone conversation: