Connecting Grammatical Person, Humanness, and Discourse Functions: Always Progressives as a Case Study

Because they reflect such important pragmatic and cognitive aspects of discourse, grammatical person and humanness merit special consideration in the analysis of any linguistic structure containing nominals. Progressive verbs tend to take human and volitional subjects, a pattern one might predict ex...

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Published in:	Corpus pragmatics : international journal of corpus linguistics and pragmatics Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 39 - 62
Main Author:	Lindley, Jori
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cham Springer International Publishing 01.03.2022
Subjects:	Computational Linguistics Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities Linguistics Original Paper Pragmatics Semantics Social Sciences Progressive Complaints Grammatical person Positive evaluations Gossip Agentivity
ISSN:	2509-9507, 2509-9515
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