An Enquiry on a Psychological Basis Into the Use of the Progressive Form in Late Modern English - Couverture souple
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Présentation de l'éditeur
The CO-existence of two analogous forms in language must necessarily result either in their differentiation or in one of them going to the wall. The progressive form of the verb by the side of the simple form of the verb affords an example of differentiation sometimes clear and distinct, but at times so nice and subtle, that the peculiar shades of meaning conveyed by either form can only be appreciated by comparison as in matters of colouring. The writers who have treated the subject from an historical point of view were sorely hampered by a lack of sufficient discrimination of the two forms in present-day English. History may be a great help to understand the present, the study of existing conditions on the other hand may be conducive toward the elucidation of the past. A part from this, the student of Modern English will be often tempted to ask why the preference should be given to the extended form of the verb in one case and to the simple tense in another. I have set myself the task to ascertain as clearly as possible the difference between the progressive form and the simple form of the verb in Late Modern English. I have retained the time-honoured name of Progressive Form firstly because of old associations connected with it and secondly because the other names proposed are equally or even more deficient in covering the different functions of the periphrasis. In my treatment of the subject I have departed from the historical lines followed by other disquisitions on similar (or J. vander Laan, The Progrressive Form.
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