Author:
Anthonissen Lynn,De Wit Astrid,Mortelmans Tanja
Abstract
This paper presents a corpus-based analysis of the semantics of the GermanamV-infseinconstruction, oram-progressive. Like its English counterpart and many other progressive constructions in the world's languages, theam-progressive is shown to convey not only a variety of aspecto-temporal meanings, but also a range of (inter)subjective qualifications, such as intensification, irritation, and evasiveness. These (inter)subjective connotations are argued to reflect theam-progressive's core meaning of epistemic contingency, which we believe is instantiated in all of its uses.*
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
Cited by
17 articles.
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