Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Approaches to Aspect: The Case of the Dutch Prepositional Progressive
Progressive constructions in Germanic are usually studied as progressive constructions—that is, exclusively so. I characterize this as a top-down approach to aspect, which, I argue, harbors the risk of overlooking relevant language-specific structures that are similar in form and meaning. This paper, therefore, advocates taking a bottom-up approach. Based on a case study of the prepositional progressive in Dutch ( aan het -progressive), I claim that this approach is of added empirical and theoretical value. Drawing on construction-based theories, the relevant patterns—dubbed situational constr... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Journal of Germanic Linguistics ; volume 35, issue 4, page 311-338 ; ISSN 1470-5427 1475-3014 |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Schlagwörter: | Literature and Literary Theory / Linguistics and Language / Language and Linguistics |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26691500 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542722000174 |