The spread of the progressive from dynamic to stative verbs started in the seventeenth century, and slowed down in the late twentieth century. The present study investigates recent change in the use of stative progressives in conversational British English from the early 1990s to the early 2010s. The analysis focuses on a total of 100 stative verb lemmata in the spoken, demographic sections of the original and new British National Corpus, restricted to a variable context where a progressive could potentially occur. Results indicate that overall, stative progressives have not become more frequent in the last twenty years, and that the group of stative verbs is highly heterogeneous. However, particular verbs, such as expect and think, do indeed combine more frequently with the progressive now, which could be the cause of the popular impression of the continuing spread of stative progressives. In addition to a frequency-based analysis, a distinctive collexeme analysis offers a more fine-grained analysis of the collostructional preferences of individual verb lemmata and semantic classes of stative verbs. This analysis reveals that the stative verbs are heterogenous and that the lemmata most distinctly associated with the progressive belong to the group of stance verbs.

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静态进步词的最新变化：1994年和2014年英式英语的搭配调查

渐进式动词从动态动词到静态动词的传播始于 17 世纪，并在 20 世纪后期放缓。本研究调查了从 1990 年代初到 2010 年代初在会话英式英语中使用静态进行词的最新变化。该分析侧重于原始和新的口语、人口统计部分中的总共 100 个静态动词词条英国国家语料库，仅限于可能发生渐进式的可变上下文。结果表明，总体而言，在过去 20 年中，静态进行词并没有变得更加频繁，并且静态动词组是高度异质的。但是，特定的动词，例如预计和思考，确实确实更频繁地与现在的进步派结合，这可能是造成静态进步派持续传播的普遍印象的原因。除了基于频率的分析之外，独特的同位词分析还提供了对单个动词词条的搭配偏好和静态动词的语义类别的更细粒度的分析。该分析表明，状态动词是异质的，并且与进行最明显相关的词条属于姿态动词组。