Rautionaho, Paula

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Vastuuoppialat ja -alueet

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sähköposti: sähköpostiosoitehaku
huone: Pinni B 5043
puhelin: 050 318 1256

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Variation in the Progressive: a Corpus-based Study into World Englishes

My ongoing PhD dissertation investigates the use of the progressive (BE + -ing) in altogether eight varieties of English throughout the world. In addition to discussing the frequency of the progressive, the dissertation focuses on morphosyntactic variation of the progressive, i.e. the grammatical environment that the progressive occurs in, and on semantic variation of the progressive, i.e. the meanings and functions of the progressive. The main aim of the dissertation is to shed light on the similarities and differences in the use of the progressive in World Englishes.