>Let's see. We know that all English present participles
>take the -ing form. Are there any other exceptionless
>principles or rules of English (morpho)syntax? Maybe
>there are lots, but I kind of doubt it. What there
>are lots of are central tendencies.
## I don't know any verb whose object precedes it, or adjective that
follows its parent noun, or ... But of course I agree with your general
point that in principle any generalisation *could* have exceptions. You
might even generalise that the typical generalisation has exceptions. But
then you'd predict some generalisations that are exceptional, wouldn't you?
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