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Analyzing progressives in Norwegian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2007

Ingebjørg Tonne
Ingebjørg Tonne
Affiliation:
Oslo University College, Faculty of Education, Box 4 St. Olavs plass, 0130 Oslo, Norway. E-mail: ingebjorg.tonne@lu.hio.no
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Abstract

In this paper, the Norwegian progressive forms are examined by way of a corpus study, including both a monolingual corpus and a Norwegian–English parallel corpus. The corpora reveal patterns and properties of Norwegian progressives that are novel compared to those of a well-studied aspectual system like that in English. The study shows that the progressives should be grouped into two subgroups, according to their combinatorial and semantic properties. The array of properties that is brought out by the examination of the monolingual and parallel corpora is accounted for in a formal semantic frame, based on works by Dowty (1979) and Krifka (1992, 1998), and also drawing on insights from, among others, Rothstein (1999, 2004).

Keywords

contrastivecorporaNorwegianprogressivesprospective formspseudocoordinationsemantics
Type
Research Article
Information
Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , December 2007 , pp. 185 - 208
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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