A Tale of Two Progressives
Type de document :
Partie d'ouvrage
Titre :
A Tale of Two Progressives
Auteur(s) :
Éditeur(s) ou directeur(s) scientifique(s) :
Laura A. Janda
Anastasii︠a︡ Makarova
Stephen M. Dickey
Dagmar Divjak
Anastasii︠a︡ Makarova
Stephen M. Dickey
Dagmar Divjak
Titre de l’ouvrage :
Each Venture a New Beginning: Studies in Honor of Laura A. Janda
Éditeur :
Slavica Publishers
Lieu de publication :
Bloomington
Date de publication :
2017
ISBN :
978-0-89357-478-9
Discipline(s) HAL :
Sciences cognitives/Linguistique
Résumé en anglais : [en]
This article presents a corpus-based comparison of the two most frequent progressive constructions in Dutch: the prepositional construction aan het INF zijn 'be at the INF' (PREP progressive) and the posture verb construction ...
Lire la suite >This article presents a corpus-based comparison of the two most frequent progressive constructions in Dutch: the prepositional construction aan het INF zijn 'be at the INF' (PREP progressive) and the posture verb construction liggen/zitten/staan+te+INF 'lie/sit/stand+to+INF' (POS progressive). While both constructions can often occur with the same verbs, our study shows that each construction has its own semantic profile: the PREP progressive has a processual profile, zooming in on the ongoing process itself, whereas the POS progressive has a situational profile, typically locating the ongoing process in a well-described spatio-temporal frame. This profile is in fact a relic from their original postural use; as such, the POS progressive provides a good illustration of Hopper's (1991) persistence principle.Lire moins >
Lire la suite >This article presents a corpus-based comparison of the two most frequent progressive constructions in Dutch: the prepositional construction aan het INF zijn 'be at the INF' (PREP progressive) and the posture verb construction liggen/zitten/staan+te+INF 'lie/sit/stand+to+INF' (POS progressive). While both constructions can often occur with the same verbs, our study shows that each construction has its own semantic profile: the PREP progressive has a processual profile, zooming in on the ongoing process itself, whereas the POS progressive has a situational profile, typically locating the ongoing process in a well-described spatio-temporal frame. This profile is in fact a relic from their original postural use; as such, the POS progressive provides a good illustration of Hopper's (1991) persistence principle.Lire moins >
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Anglais
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Internationale
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