This article examines the historical development of the VVingOBL construction, as exemplified by “Jane came whistling down the street” or “She went walking up the field path,” where an intransitive motion verb is followed by a present participle and an oblique complement. The analysis looks at the precursors of the construction since Old English and argues that the sharp rise in productivity of the VVingOBL construction, especially from the second half of the nineteenth century, is interrelated with changes affecting English motion vocabulary in Early and Late Modern English and also the increase in frequency of the be progressive over the same period. By the twentieth century, the VVingOBL construction had settled into its modern form, namely a deictic-directional construction with either come or go in the V slot. The article also considers indices of the advancing grammaticalization of the construction. It concludes by discussing whether its morphosyntactic and semantic properties support considering it as a serial verb construction, a hypothesis briefly raised in work by Goldberg (2006:52).

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关于英国进步建筑的历史，简在街上吹口哨

本文考察了 VVingOBL 结构的历史发展，例如“简在街上吹口哨”或“她走在田野小路上”，其中不及物动词后面跟着现在分词和斜补语。该分析着眼于自古英语以来的构式的先驱，并认为 VVingOBL 构式的生产力的急剧上升，尤其是从 19 世纪下半叶开始，与影响早期和晚期现代英语和晚期英语运动词汇的变化相互关联。并且在同一时期内逐渐增加的频率。到了 20 世纪，VVingOBL 结构已经融入了它的现代形式，即一个指示指向结构，在 V 槽中要么来要么去。文章还考虑了推进结构语法化的指标。最后讨论了其形态句法和语义属性是否支持将其视为连续动词结构，这是 Goldberg (2006:52) 在工作中简要提出的假设。