Early studies on nominalization focus on English gerunds as sentential nominalizations (Lees, 1960; Chomsky, 1970), while recent investigations vary in analysing them as pruned clauses (Frank and Kroch, 1994) or nominalizations of different syntactic domains (Abney, 1987; Alexiadou, 2001; Panagiotidis and Grohmann, 2005; Kornfilt and Whitman, 2011). In common, these proposals understand (clausal) subordination as a trigger for insertion of a nominalizer element into the syntactic structure. They face however, difficulties in dealing with the internal complexity of the resulting structures, while challenging principles of c-selection and appealing to ad-hoc definitions for the defectiveness of the involved categories. The present study raises the hypothesis that sentential nominalizations result from hybridization of the functional categories C and D, rejecting, thus, the classical idea that these functional elements are formed only by rigid, solid sets of formal features. This hypothesis paves the way for an analysis of English gerundives as structures headed by a hybrid functional category, in this case, C(intersection)D (complementizer intersection determinant). This analysis might apply crosslinguistically while explaining different types of intra-language nominalizations.