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Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Approaches to Aspect: The Case of the Dutch Prepositional Progressive

Maarten Bogaards

Abstrak

Progressive constructions in Germanic are usually studied as progressive constructions—that is, exclusively so. I characterize this as a top-down approach to aspect, which, I argue, harbors the risk of overlooking relevant language-specific structures that are similar in form and meaning. This paper, therefore, advocates taking a bottom-up approach. Based on a case study of the prepositional progressive in Dutch (aan het-progressive), I claim that this approach is of added empirical and theoretical value. Drawing on construction-based theories, the relevant patterns—dubbed situational constructions—are analyzed in terms of horizontal constructional links.*

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Maarten Bogaards

Format Sitasi

Bogaards, M. (2023). Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Approaches to Aspect: The Case of the Dutch Prepositional Progressive. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1470542722000174

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Informasi Jurnal
Tahun Terbit
2023
Bahasa
en
Total Sitasi
Sumber Database
Semantic Scholar
DOI
10.1017/S1470542722000174
Akses
Open Access ✓