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Aspect meets modality: a semantic analysis of the German am-progressive
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Abstract
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| This paper presents a corpus-based analysis of the semantics of the German am V-inf sein construction, or am-progressive. Like its English counterpart and many other progressive constructions in the world's languages, the am-progressive is shown to convey not only a variety of aspecto-temporal meanings, but also a range of (inter)subjective qualifications, such as intensification, irritation, and evasiveness. These (inter)subjective connotations are argued to reflect the am-progressive's core meaning of epistemic contingency, which we believe is instantiated in all of its uses. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Journal of Germanic linguistics. - Cambridge, 2001, currens
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Publication
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Cambridge
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2016
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ISSN
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1470-5427
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1475-3014
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DOI
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10.1017/S1470542715000185
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Volume/pages
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28
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(2016)
, p. 1-30
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ISI
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000370691200001
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