Subjectivity and the English progressive  

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Killie, Kristin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English Language and Linguistics (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST th. 2005 - terbaru) vol. 8 no. 1 (Apr. 2004), page 25-46.
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According toWright (1994a), subjectivity in theEnglish progressive is typically associated with specific linguistic features. In particular, subjective progressives are said normally to occur in main clauses and to involve an adverb(ial) of the type always, a first- or secondperson pronominal subject and a private or cognitive verb in the present tense. This study tests Wright’s claim against a corpus of Early Modern English prose. The focus is on the kind of subjective progressives that are claimed by Wright to be most subjective of all, namely collocations of the progressive with adverbs such as always. It is shown that the ‘always progressives’ in the corpus are typically found in a subclause, in collocation with an activity verb, and that they commonly occur with different types of subjects and tense/mood combinations. The conclusion is therefore that Wright’s predictions concerning typical linguistic contexts for subjective progressives are not borne out.

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