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TO BE in the Progressive: A New Use
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 June 2016
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Visser (1973:1968) gives a long list of verbs “more or less incompatible” with the progressive that have this in common: in their general sense
they do not express a real activity . . . In order to account for their use in the expanded form one ought to go in quest of the various senses and sub-senses that are tinged with a notion — however slight — of activity. (1973:1969)
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- Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 1 - 11
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- Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1990
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