English gerund with temporal prepositions

The purpose of the present paper is to examine one of the realization forms of adverbials - adjuncts of time that are introduced with simple prepositions on, in, at, between, during and throughout complemented by gerund. The realization forms of adverbials are primarily approached from the point of view of their subordinators. In this sense, the adjuncts that are in the focus of the present paper are distinguished from comparable nonfinite adverbial clauses in that they are introduced by simple prepositions, which usually require nominal complementation. Since the focus of this paper is a corpus-based survey allowing a functional comparison with other forms of realization, the theoretical part is devoted to an introductory description of other related forms of realization of (non)finite adverbials of time, namely augmented free adjuncts, free adjuncts, and finite adverbial clauses of time. Their central features such as the status in the grammars, their functions and grammatical types, position in the sentence, form and relatedness of the subject, semantic explicitness, types of augmentors, semantic relationships between the clauses, and the differences between these forms of realization are discussed. The mentioned forms of realization are chosen on the basis of their ability to deliver the same..