LL-L "Grammar" 2005.03.04 (02) [E]

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From: davidab at telefonica.net.pe <davidab at telefonica.net.pe>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2005.03.03 (06) [E]

> From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
> Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2005.03.02 (04) [D/E]
>
> Re "progressive mood"
> I was wondering if the progressive mood in English, which is not used in
> the other Germanic (or Romance) languages is a loan-construction from
> British/Celtic? I don't know a lot about Celtic, but I remember that e.g
> Welsh always uses a kind of progressive mood, something like:
> am I in work = I'm working
> is he in eat = he's eating
> are we in go to school = we go to school
> etc.
>
> Does (did) it exist in Cornish and Breton too, and in Irish and Gaelic?
> Or would it be possible that Celtic borrowed it from English?
>
> Ingmar

I can't comment on the origins of the progressive but it does exist in
Spanish
also: Estoy escribiendo = I am writing

David Barrow

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