Progressive Aspect Today: The Stative Verbs
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https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2011.3.2Keywords:
progressive aspect, stative verbs, language use, meaning, contextAbstract
Linguists have been aware of the imperfections of the semantic division of verbs into dynamic and stative, which has been used in teaching grammatical aspect. Stative verbs are frequently used in the progressive aspect nowadays, so one wonders about the necessity of this classification, since it does not reflect actual usage. A verb is not inherently stative or dynamic; it is often stative or often dynamic depending on the lexical and grammatical context in which it appears. The paper discusses some of the stative verbs and gives the results of a survey on the degree of acceptance of “unusual” progressive uses of such verbs by three different age groups of educated native speakers of English.
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