36.3425, Books: The Progressive Revisited: Carlucci and Nykiel (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 05-Nov-2025
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Progressive Revisited: Carlucci and Nykiel (eds.) (2025)


Title: The Progressive Revisited
Subtitle: Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance
Languages
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series   236
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.236

Editor(s): Alessandro Carlucci; Jerzy Nykiel

eBook ISBN:  9789027244703 Pages:  368 Price: Europe EURO 135.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244703 Pages:  368 Price: U.K. £ 113.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244703 Pages:  368 Price: U.S. $ 176.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027223494 Pages:  368 Price: Europe EURO 135.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027223494 Pages:  368 Price: Europe EURO 143.10
Hardback ISBN:  9789027223494 Pages:  368 Price: U.K. £ 113.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027223494 Pages:  368 Price: U.S. $ 176.00

Abstract:

This volume consists of corpus-based analyses of progressive aspect
constructions in Germanic and Romance. By adopting a variety of
methodologies and theoretical frameworks, these studies provide
valuable insights into the development, grammaticalization and use of
various progressive structures across two subgroups of the
Indo-European family. The progressive constructions under scrutiny
range from widely studied and seemingly well understood constructions
to relatively infrequent and obscure ones. Most chapters investigate a
specific function of a particular progressive structure, or a change
affecting it. Some chapters cast new light on the pragmatic,
non-aspectual functions fulfilled by the progressive. All the chapters
present a substantial amount of new empirical work. This collection
thus provides a unique opportunity for linguists working on Romance
languages to get an instant insight into similar phenomena in Germanic
languages and vice versa. At the same time, the volume addresses
contemporary theoretical and methodological issues in corpus, contact
and historical linguistics, showing that research on the progressive
remains today as relevant and inspiring as ever.

Written In: English (eng)



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