“…points to gerunds constructing Circumstance relations; however, gerunds can build other relations, among them, causal relations. For instance,Antonio (2012) found that 22% of the coherence relations built by adverbial gerund clauses in a Portuguese corpus were Result relations, and Da Cunha et al(2012) found in a Spanish corpus that gerund can signal three relations: Circumstance, Means and Result. Besides gerunds, infinitives are other non-finite verbs that can signal coherence relations in Spanish, where infinitives after prepositions also build adverbial clauses, sometimes translated to English using gerunds, as example 6 shows (see Rodríguez Ramalle, 2008, for a comparison between features of gerunds and infinitives in English and Spanish).…”