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Accounting for the Expressive Effect of the -ing in Attributive Function as Compared to its Use in the Progressive: from Potential Meaning to Actual Use

Patrick Duffley

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Patrick Duffley

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In a previous paper concerned with defining the potential meaning of the -ing form in English (Duffley 1993), it was proposed that the impression of imperfectivity produced by the -ing when used in the progressive construction is a consequence of actualizing the relation of the event to its spatial support. Since the latter can only actually occupy one instant within event time, this engenders a representation of the event as divided into an already accomplished portion (situated before the position occupied by the spatial support) and a yet to be accomplished portion (situated after it). Further research into the problem has led to the realization that this explanation is only partial and needs to be completed in order to account for the capacity of the -ing to express a state-like event in attributive uses such as a woman resembling my mother got on the train. The present paper will be an attempt to provide a more complete explanation by taking account the temporalization of the -ing event’s relation to its spatial support.

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7e Colloque de psychomécanique du langage

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7e Colloque de psychomécanique du langage

Hôte : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

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