Predicting the Progressive Passive: Parametric Change within a Lexicalist Framework  

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Warner, Anthony R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 71 no. 3 (1995), page 533-557.
Fulltext: Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 533-557.pdf (780.57KB)

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The English progressive passive (e.g. is being c(llird) is first attested in the second half of the eighteenth century. The paper offers a new interpretation of this development as integrated into a series of changes which affected BE (and HAVE) at this period. It arose not as a combination of progressive and passive constructions but (with the other changes) was a consequence of the reduction of inflection in auxiliaries which followed the loss of THOU in informal speech. This is interpreted as a parametric change, for which there is an overt triggering difference in the primary linguistic data, and the account is formalized within HPSG.*

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