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The German‐American Progressive
Author(s) -
Porterfield Allen W.
Publication year - 1935
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1935.tb05862.x
Subject(s) - german , casual , linguistics , psychology , control (management) , history , political science , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , law
Author's summary.— The extreme difficulty inherent in the ambitious attempt to become bilingual is clearly revealed in the casual inability of even cultured German‐Americans to acquire idiomatic control of the English “progressive” present tense: e.g., “This is good coffee; I am liking it”, for “I like it.”