"A Corpus-based Study on English Stative Verbs Used in Progressive Aspect

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-596
Author(s):  
Nosirova Dilyorakhon ◽  
Munhong Choe
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Aspect

scholarly journals Progressive Attraction: On the Use and Grammaticalization of Progressive Aspect in Dutch, Norwegian, and German

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bergljot Behrens ◽  
Monique Flecken ◽  
Mary Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Similar Process ◽  
Progressive Aspect ◽  
Usage Patterns

This paper investigates the use of aspectual constructions in Dutch, Norwegian, and German, languages in which aspect marking that presents events explicitly as ongoing, is optional. Data were elicited under similar conditions with native speakers in the three countries. We show that while German speakers make insignificant use of aspectual constructions, usage patterns in Norwegian and Dutch present an interesting case of overlap, as well as differences, with respect to a set of factors that attract or constrain the use of different constructions. The results indicate that aspect marking is grammaticalizing in Dutch, but there are no clear signs of a similar process in Norwegian.*

Contact phenomena in language maintenance and shift: The Pennsylvania German infinitive construction

1990 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Lois Huffines
Keyword(s):  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Nonnative Speakers ◽  
Progressive Aspect ◽  
Pennsylvania German ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
Language Maintenance And Shift

ABSTRACTThe formation of the Pennsylvania German dependent infinitive construction varies across Pennsylvania German speech communities. The use of zu to mark infinitives which do not complement modals is receding in all communities and has been replaced variably by far or far…zu. Younger nonnative speakers have grasped the (far)…zu construction as template for producing discourse. Sectarians (Amish and Mennonites) mark dependent infinitives less frequently than nonsectarians, and Amish speakers often avoid the construction by the progressive aspect. The influence of English on these developments is indirect. The loss of zu, the use of (far)…zu, and the sectarian omission of far and zu represent generalizations of different rules. The contact seems to have promoted generalization, but has influenced each group to generalize differently

scholarly journals From bodily posture to progressive aspect marker

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-112
Author(s):  
Najib Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Argument Structure ◽  
Progressive Aspect ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Construction ◽  
Aspect Marker ◽  
Auxiliary Verb ◽  
Aspectual Markers

AbstractThe fact that posture verbs tend to grammaticalize into aspectual markers of progressivity in a wide-range of (un)related languages makes them particularly interesting objects of study. The present paper aims to contribute to our understanding of how the active posture participle “yālis” (sitting) plus imperfective verb have come to express the progressive aspect in Emirati Arabic. The proposed answer to this puzzling question involves the claim that, crosslinguistically, progressive constructions are known to originate from locative constructions in which the agent is described as in the midst of an activity. The function of “yālis” (sitting) as an auxiliary verb - like appears to be the result of a grammaticalization process, as certain principles of grammaticalization such as desemanticization, extension, and decategorialization were found to apply to it. Data from Emirati Arabic variety suggest that the construction has undergone semantic and morphosyntatctic changes but retained its phonetic content. As part of the new construction, the active participle “yālis” (sitting) has also changed its argument structure.

The Progressive in Japanese and Temporal Advancement in Narrative

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Seiki Ayano
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Progressive Aspect ◽  
Perceptual Effect ◽  
Advance Time ◽  
Previous Sentence

Abstract. Various studies have indicated that the aspectual class controls the narrative temporal structure. In principle, sentences with a bound/perfcctive interpretation advance time in narrative. For example, a sentence with either an achievement or an accomplishment predicate does not overlap with surrounding discourse and, therefore, it is interpreted as a description of an event that happens later than the event described in the previous sentence. However, it has also been pointed out that the progressive aspect in English moves time forward in the narrative. Dowry (1986) provides examples in the progressive aspect that alllow time advancement. He argues that in such exceptional cases, a quasi-inceptive reading is possible through "perceptual observations". The present paper examimes the progressive construction in Japanese, which involves the stativc suffix te-iru. The aim of this study is to show that the progressive aspect in Japanese also brings about a perceptual effect under certain conditions, which induces a boundedness reading of the sentence with a predicate in the progressive aspect.

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