Chapter published in:
Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus ResearchEdited by Robert Fuchs and Valentin Werner
[Benjamins Current Topics 108] 2020
► pp. 53–82
The use of stative progressives by school-age learners of English and the importance of the variable context
Myth vs. (corpus) reality
Robert Fuchs | University of Hamburg
Valentin Werner | University of Bamberg
Previous studies indicate that even Advanced learners of English as a Foreign Language and speakers of English as a Second
Language extend the progressive to stative verbs, contrary to the predictions of the Aspect Hypothesis (AH). We test this
claim based on a corpus of beginning and lower intermediate learner writing produced by speakers of three languages with and
three without a progressive. In contrast to previous studies, we measure the frequency of stative progressives using the
variable context method, which is frequently used in research on dialectal variation. Results reveal that stative progressives
are very rare at the beginning/lower intermediate level, regardless of the presence of a progressive in the learners’ L1,
confirming the claim of the AH for beginning and lower intermediate learners. Moreover, stative progressives mostly occur in
contexts that are grammatical in native usage, especially in the interlanguage of learners with a progressive in their L1.
Keywords: stative progressive, aspect, aspect hypothesis, ICCI, L1 transfer
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1The Aspect Hypothesis
- 1.2Previous research on the English progressive and its use in stative contexts
- 1.3Research question(s)
- 2.The variable context in research on the English progressive
- 3.Data and methods
- 4.Results
- 5.Discussion
- 6.Conclusion
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Acknowledgements -
Notes -
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Published online: 01 July 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.108.ijlcr.17010.fuc
https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.108.ijlcr.17010.fuc
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