The semantics of progressive aspect: a thorough study
This article was published in Stamford Journal of English [© 2012 Stamford Journal of English] and the definite version is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sje.v7i0.14464 The article website is at: http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/SJE/article/view/14464
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10361-65942019-09-30T03:02:01Z The semantics of progressive aspect: a thorough study Flora, Mousume Akhter Hasan, S.M. Mohibul Semantics Progressive Thorough Study Theoretical Linguistics This article was published in Stamford Journal of English [© 2012 Stamford Journal of English] and the definite version is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sje.v7i0.14464 The article website is at: http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/SJE/article/view/14464 In English grammar, verbs have two important characteristics--tense and aspect. Grammatically tense is marked in two ways: Present and Past. English verbs can have another property called aspect, applicable in both present and past forms of verbs. There are two major types of morphologically marked aspects in English verbs: progressive and perfective. While present and past tenses are morphologically marked by the forms verb+s/es (as in He plays) and verb+d/ed (as in He played) respectively, the morphological representations of progressive and perfective aspects in the tenses are verb+ing (He is/was playing) and verb+d/ed/n/en (He has/had played) respectively. This paper focuses only on one type of aspectual feature of verbs--present progressive. It analyses the use of present progressive in terms of semantics and explains its use in different contexts for durative conclusive and non-conclusive use, for its use in relation to time of reference, and for its use in some special cases. Then it considers the restrictions on the use of progressive aspect in both present and past tenses based on the nature of verbs and duration of time. Published 2016-10-18T09:29:42Z 2016-10-18T09:29:42Z 2012 Article Flora, Mousume Akhter, & Hasan, S. M. M. (2012). The semantics of progressive aspect: a thorough study. Stamford Journal of English, 7, 87–97. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sje.v7i0.14464 1811-3079 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/6594 en http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sje.v7i0.14464 application/pdf © 2012 Stamford Journal of English |
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This article was published in Stamford Journal of English [© 2012 Stamford Journal of English] and the definite version is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sje.v7i0.14464 The article website is at: http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/SJE/article/view/14464 |
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