Open AccessEvolución gramatical de las construcciones progresivas del inglés: una discusión diacrónica
Author(s) -
Carlos van Arkel Simón
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
philologica canariensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2386-8635
pISSN - 1136-3169
DOI - 10.20420/phil.can.2021.373
Subject(s) - linguistics , set (abstract data type) , grammatical category , philosophy , psychology , history , computer science , programming language , noun
In this paper we bring forward a comprehensive discussion on the grammatical development of the English progressive construction. From a set of progressive prototypes drawn from the family of corpora York-Toronto-Helsinki-Penn, we exemplify how the lexical and grammatical configuration of the construction which is characteristic of Present-Day English appears since Old English. Furthermore, we explain how the syntactic evolution of English enables the establishment of the obligatory grammatical nature of the verbal periphrastic construction. Finally, we explain how the grammatical patterns and the semantic and pragmatic features that describe the English progressive construction in the course of its evolution are manifested apparently through a functional-morphosyntactic and grammatical change gradient.