The progressive revisited historical and quantitative studies in Germanic and Romance languages edited by Alessandro Carlucci, University of Oxford, Jerzy Nykiel, University of Bergen

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carlucci, Alessandro, editor.

Nykiel, Jerzy, editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series 0165-7763 volume 236

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germanic languages--Aspect.

Germanic languages.

Romance languages--Aspect.

Romance languages.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Historical linguistics.

Genre:

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company 2025

Summary:

"This volume consists of corpus-based analyses of progressive aspect constructions in Germanic and Romance. By adopting a variety of methodologies and theoretical frameworks, these studies provide valuable insights into the development, grammaticalization and use of various progressive structures across two subgroups of the Indo-European family. The progressive constructions under scrutiny range from widely studied and seemingly well understood constructions to relatively infrequent and obscure ones. Most chapters investigate a specific function of a particular progressive structure, or a change affecting it. Some chapters cast new light on the pragmatic, non-aspectual functions fulfilled by the progressive. All the chapters present a substantial amount of new empirical work. This collection thus provides a unique opportunity for linguists working on Romance languages to get an instant insight into similar phenomena in Germanic languages and vice versa. At the same time, the volume addresses contemporary theoretical and methodological issues in corpus, contact and historical linguistics, showing that research on the progressive remains today as relevant and inspiring as ever"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction / Alessandro Carlucci & Jerzy Nykiel

Progressive structures in English. Progressive aspect in English: developments in early Middle English / Gjertrud Stenbrenden

The rise of the progressive passive and the loss of the non-finite participial progressive being Ving / Rebecka Nordenlöw

Grinding to a halt? The spread of the progressive in recent spoken British English / Paula Rautionaho

How progressive is gonna be Ving? / Leela Azorin & Laure Lansari

The go Ving network in twenty-first century English / Teresa Fanego

Does English have grammaticalized progressive pseudo-coordination? The case of sit and V / Jerzy Nykiel

Comparative, contrastive and contact perspectives. Searching for the progressive in treebanks / Koenraad De Smedt

The Spanish progressives: linguistic exploitation of a maverick category? / Christopher Pountain

Theoretical and methodological issues in language contact and change: the case of English influence on Italian stare + gerund / Alessandro Carlucci

Progressive structures in Italian. The gerund periphrases in Italian: a quantitative survey of literary prose / Stefano Ondelli

Subjectification, subject pronouns and the progressive in Italian / Lorella Viola

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Progressive revisited

Print version :

ISBN:

9789027244703

9027244707

OCLC:

1543358067

Publisher Number:

CIPO000295324

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license