The development of the Englishbe+ V-ende/V-ingperiphrasis: from emphatic to progressive marker?

Evolución gramatical de las construcciones progresivas del inglés: una discusión diacrónica

“…Así, la evolución de estas formas perifrásticas del inglés presenta un desarrollo único entre las lenguas germánicas ya que, en dichas lenguas, las construcciones similares desaparecen y, en cualquier caso, no presentan en la actualidad un paradigma progresivo tan amplio como el del inglés (cf. Smith, 2007;Killie, 2014;Petré, 2015Petré, , 2017van Arkel-Simón, 2019y 2020. Lo cierto es que el inglés desarrolla un sistema aspectual único entre las lenguas germánicas para codificar la noción de progresividad, el cual viene dado por un marcado proceso de gramaticalización y, muy probablemente, de cambio construccional y construccionalización en determinadas estructuras del paradigma progresivo.…”

The Stative Progressive in Singapore English: A Panchronic Perspective

“…Arguments over the diachronic development of the English progressive in late twentiethcentury studies were generally divided into two camps: those who believed that the Accounts which have traced the progressive back to Old English include: Nickel (1966), Scheffer (1975), Mitchell (1976;, Nehls (1988), Traugott (1992, Denison (1993) and Warner (1993). Others include Núñez-Pertejo (2004) and, more recently, Kranich (2013), Killie (2014) and Petré (2015), Kranich (2013) suggesting that the locative source construction type (as in (1)) was not functionally equivalent to the progressive at the time. Some accounts allow for a different explanation for the process by which the construction developed -rather than grammaticalization, it may have been a case of reanalysis that determined the ultimate direction that the progressive was to take.…”

“…Some accounts allow for a different explanation for the process by which the construction developed -rather than grammaticalization, it may have been a case of reanalysis that determined the ultimate direction that the progressive was to take. Studies such as Kranich (2013), Killie (2014) and Petré (2015) suggest a secondary grammaticalization, Kranich proposing the original primary grammaticalization to have begun long ago, prior to Old English times, since it is not possible to trace the origins of the progressive to a true lexical source using available resources. 3 However, if so, the path of development must have taken place at a relatively slow pace, compared with other aspectual classes in English.…”

“…(7) a. Nominal: He is [land-owning] (land-owning is a generic agent noun = 'land-owner' The Stative Progressive in Singapore English: A Panchronic Perspective 245 c. Participle: He [is land-owning] now (land-owning is a participle expressing an on-going situation extending over speaker reference time). Quirk and Wrenn (1994: 113) list a large number of agent nouns belonging to the group of generic types, according to Vendler's (1967) classifications; for example: eardiend 'dweller ' , haelend 'saviour' , healdend 'chief ' , nergend 'saviour' , raedend 'ruler' , scyppend 'creator' , wrecend 'avenger' , agend 'owner' , buend 'dweller' , haebbend 'owner' , folc-, foldagend 'ruler of people, of land' and woruldbuend 'world-dweller' . It was clear that the periphrasis was already functioning as a copula and participle construction by Old English times; the main difference between the Old English usage and that of today's English is the use with habituals and permanent states (and even iteratives, according to Killie (2014), though she emphasizes that they were notably infrequent). The once broader range of aspectual uses, though much debated, appears to reflect a function of general imperfectivity, which has since gradually narrowed over more than a thousand years to express more restricted imperfective functions in the present-day progressive.…”

Estudio cualitativo de los procesos de gramaticalización, cambio construccional y construccionalización en las construcciones progresivas del inglés

“…Los estudios actuales más comprensivos sobre las construcciones progresivas del inglés explican la evolución de estas estructuras a la luz de diversos procesos de gramaticalización (cf. Núñez-Pertejo 2004;Smitterberg 2005;Smith 2007;Kranich 2010;Killie 2014). Kranich (2010: 77) sostiene que en inglés contemporáneo o actual (IC) estas construcciones básicamente funcionan como un marcador aspectual que presenta un alto grado de gramaticalización.…”