TO BE in the Progressive: A New Use
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Published:1990-03
Issue:1
Volume:35
Page:1-11
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ISSN:0008-4131
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Container-title:Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Can. J. Linguist.
Author:
Hirtle Walter,Bégin Claude
Abstract
Visser (1973:1968) gives a long list of verbs “more or less incompatible” with the progressive that have this in common: in their general sensethey do not express a real activity . . . In order to account for their use in the expanded form one ought to go in quest of the various senses and sub-senses that are tinged with a notion — however slight — of activity. (1973:1969)
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
Cited by
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