What is it about?
The volume offers an in-depth look at a number of progressive aspect constructions in select Germanic and Romance languages. The studies included use corpus data to discover or describe the development and/or use of well-established and rare progressive constructions.
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Why is it important?
Linguists interested in a particular issue in a language, or a language family, may not be aware of the progress which has been made in the work on similar issues by linguists focusing on different languages or working within different traditions. Typological studies try to bridge this gap but they are normally not detailed enough to focus on, for example, low-frequency structures. This volume addresses this problem by offering a collection of articles on the progressive in Germanic and Romance languages, with attention mainly being given to English and Italian but also with substantial discussions of other languages such as Norwegian and Spanish.
Perspectives
Interaction with the linguists whose research is included in this volume and with the various perspectives on progressive aspect has made working on this book a learning and enriching experience for us. We, as editors, hope this volume contributes to making the notoriously elusive notion of linguistic aspect, in this case progressive aspect, a lot more tangible.
Jerzy Nykiel
University of Bergen
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This page is a summary of: The Progressive Revisited, September 2025, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/slcs.236.
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