Recent change in stative progressives: a collostructional investigation of British English in 1994 and 2014
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DOI: 10.1017/s136067431900042x
Abstract: The spread of the progressive from dynamic to stative verbs started in the seventeenth century, and slowed down in the late twentieth century. The present study investigates recent change in the use of stative progressives… read more here.
Keywords: recent change; british english; stative progressives; analysis ... See more keywords