... theory Old Irish roofing grammaticalization of the progressive aspect do-periphrasis Following on preliminaries that illustrate some relevant aspects of the history of language-contact scholarship, this chapter is divided into three main parts. In the first one, I seek to present a few representative...

... perfective imperfective progressive aspect resultative perfect double past tense Sentences presented as statements describe some situations (events or states), which are often expressed in reference to time. There are basically two ways to do so. One way is to refer to a situation relative to some...

... J Schäfer F Abusch D Kissine M Hacquard V modality negation Fintel K von ceteris paribus Thomason R causation causal chains present tense planning progressive aspect volition Cross‐linguistically, certain imperfectives can be used to refer to planned future outcomes. When...

... in the category of progressives if they display a medium-to-high degree of grammaticalization and routinization. Even in languages with fully grammaticalized progressives, there is no tidy correspondence between progressive aspectuality (as a semantic notion) and the progressive aspect (as a grammatical category...

... uses the progressive aspect for a wider timespan than just temporariness. References Barnett, U.A. ( 1983 ) A Vision of Order: A Study of Black South African Literature in English (1914–1980) , Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman. Beeton, D.R. and Dorner, H. ( 1975...

...In “Teleological Dispositions,” Nick Kroll suggests that a primitive notion of directedness can provide a theory of dispositions, an explanation of the link between dispositions and conditionals, and an account of the progressive aspect in English. This paper raises some worries for each...

... in Persian, and of an innovated progressive aspect. Indo Aryan languages Indo European languages Middle Persian also Middle Iranian Old Persian Persian Heine Bernd inflectionalization Davari Shadi Jügel Thomas Kohan Mehrdad Naghzguy adpositions agreement auxiliary case case marking complexity...

... system closely. IndE speakers reassign English (past) tense and (progressive) aspect morphology to mark perfective and imperfective aspect, respectively. The former involves underuse relative to native standard 121 varieties, and the latter involves overuse...