In:The Progressive Revisited: Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Alessandro Carlucci and Jerzy Nykiel
[Studies in Language Companion Series 236] 2025
► pp. v–vi
Table of contents
List of abbreviations
vii
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
Alessandro Carlucci
Jerzy Nykiel
Part I.Progressive structures in English
21Progressive aspect in English: Developments in early Middle English
22
Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden
The rise of the progressive passive and the loss of the non-finite participial progressive being
Ving
47
Rebecka Nordenlöw
Grinding to a halt? The spread of the progressive in recent spoken British English
75
Paula Rautionaho
How progressive is gonna be Ving?
98
Leela Azorin
Laure Lansari
The go Ving network in twenty-first century English
126
Teresa Fanego
Does English have grammaticalized progressive pseudo-coordination? The case of sit and V
159
Jerzy Nykiel
Part II.Comparative, contrastive and contact perspectives
189Searching for the progressive in treebanks
190
Koenraad de Smedt
The Spanish progressives: Linguistic exploitation of a maverick category?
230
Christopher J. Pountain
Theoretical and methodological issues in language contact and change: The case of English influence on Italian stare + gerund
255
Alessandro Carlucci
Part III.Progressive structures in Italian
289The gerund periphrases in Italian: A quantitative survey of literary prose
290
Stefano Ondelli
Subjectification, subject pronouns and the progressive in Italian
327
Lorella Viola
Subject index
