Análisis diacrónico aspectual-cognitivo de la construcción progresiva verbal del inglés
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Universidad de La Laguna
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ISSN: 1885-9089
Year of publication: 2021
Volume: 20
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-24
Type: Article
More publications in: RAEL: revista electrónica de lingüística aplicada
Abstract
In this paper we develop a qualitative analysis of the English verbal progressive construction on the basis of a sample drawn from the family of corpora York-Toronto-Helsinki-Penn, in order to illustrate the semantic-aspectual change patterns undergone by this construction in the course of its diachronic development. We conduct a cognitivist analysis which indicates the persistence of the aspectual configurations which are specific to the progressive category in Present-day English since medieval periods. In this analysis, the concept of linguistic gradient seems to explain the differences in the conceptualisations that characterise the category in each period in the light of the formal structure of the construction.
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