Aspects of the progressive in English and Icelandic
This dissertation presents a semantic analysis of the progressive of both English and Icelandic, the only two Germanic languages that generally are considered to have fully grammaticalized progressive constructions. The progressive is an aspectual category where the focus is on a single, dynamic...
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Language: | English |
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University of British Columbia
2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37100 |