![]() In two complementary articles (this article and The subjective use of postural verb in Afrikaans (I): evolution from progressive to modal) the development and use of the CPV en as subjective or interpretative construction, are investigated. ![]() The subjective use of progressive constructions in Afrikaans has not received much attention to date. The CPV 1en construction is even used in contexts where its meaning cannot be interpreted as progressive (for example, stative or anterior situation types), and furthermore this construction collocates significantly strongly with negative communication verbs (verbs like skinder 'gossip', kla 'complain' and pla 'bother'. Although this practice occurs in all three Afrikaans progressive constructions, it is clear that the postural progressive in Afrikaans in particular became specialised with respect to subjective expression. In other words, this aspectual construction is applied to postulate the speaker's attitude towards or emotional involvement with a particular situation. Subject group: Afrikaans and Dutch, Potchefstroom Campus, North-West-University, South Africa E-mail: general linguistic use of progressive aspect is to express some kind of subjective meaning. ![]() The subjective use of postural verbs in Afrikaans (II): a corpus analysis of CPV en in Zefrikaans
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