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Progressive or simple?: a corpus-based study of aspect in World Englishes

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2020
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Hundt, M., Rautionaho, P., & Strobl, C. (2020). Progressive or simple?: a corpus-based study of aspect in World Englishes. Corpora, 15(1), 77–106. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2020.0186

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Previous corpus-based research on the progressive (BE+V-ing) investigated it from a diachronic point of view or from the angle of World Englishes (WEs). However, factors such as its propensity to occur with animate subjects or its preference for dynamic verbs have not been studied in relation to the choice between progressive and simple aspect. As the progressive has been extended to stative verbs, we argue that a variationist study of the construction in WEs needs to take simple VPs into account systematically, too, and investigate w

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  • Hundt, Marianne
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  • Rautionaho, Paula
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  • Strobl, Carolin
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15

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77

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106

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1749-5032

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180 since deposited on 2019-11-26
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Hundt, M., Rautionaho, P., & Strobl, C. (2020). Progressive or simple?: a corpus-based study of aspect in World Englishes. Corpora, 15(1), 77–106. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2020.0186

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