par De Wit, Astrid 
;De Brabanter, Philippe
Référence Chronos (13: 4-6/06/2018: Neuchâtel, Suisse)
Publication Non publié, 2018
;De Brabanter, Philippe Référence Chronos (13: 4-6/06/2018: Neuchâtel, Suisse)
Publication Non publié, 2018
Communication à un colloque
| Résumé : | The semantics of the English progressive is typically analyzed in terms of aspecto-temporal notions such as duration or ongoingness at reference time, in contrast with its simplex counterpart, which is said to involve a complete viewpoint on a situation that is stable over time. Yet this distinction in terms of purely aspecto-temporal notions is difficult to maintain if we consider numerous examples featuring verbs of communication (attested in the spoken component of the Corpus of Contemporary American English), in which the simple present and the present progressive appear to be interchangeable without there being an aspectual meaning difference. |
