Canadian progressive statives

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	milky  #287048  Sun, 29 Oct 06 05:12 PM Hey, Canadians, what's your take on this? The progressive, stative verbs, and change in Canadian English Growing use of progressive forms with stative verbs, bolded in (1), where previously only simple tenses (ST), underlined in (1), were allowed, is an oft-cited example of change in contemporary English (Aitchison 1991; Jespersen 1933; Potter 1975, among others). This putative encroachment of the progressive on the domain of ST should presumably result in the restructuring of the stative paradigm, with the progressive either taking over some of ST’s functions or developing new ones of its own. (1) I know what I’m thinking and they’re all thinking the same thing. (QEC/QC/021/163) [link]    milky Joined on Thu, Jan 15 2004 Senior Member (3,149) Hume said that if we had perfect or complete descriptive knowledge of reality, we could not, by reasoning, derive a single valid "ought".
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	MrPedantic  #287206  Mon, 30 Oct 06 12:55 AM .    MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member (12,142) ...opella forensis / adducit febris...

	Alienvoord  #288006  Wed, 01 Nov 06 12:38 AM I know what I'm thinking and they're all thinking the same thing. I see nothing remarkable about this sentence. Maybe if they gave more examples...    Alienvoord Joined on Tue, Jul 25 2006 Toronto Full Member (317) I'm a Canadian English speaker

	milky  #288065  Wed, 01 Nov 06 05:11 AM  Alienvoord wrote: I know what I'm thinking and they're all thinking the same thing. I see nothing remarkable about this sentence. Maybe if they gave more examples... Yes, if one has cash, one can download the article. I don't have it to spare.    milky
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	Mike in Japan  #288102  Wed, 01 Nov 06 07:05 AM  Milky wrote: Hey, Canadians, what's your take on this? Do you have a take on it, Milky?    Mike in Japan Joined on Tue, Aug 19 2003 Hazzard County, Japan Rank NA (4,349) I do like to be beside the seaside

	Anonymous  #288119  Wed, 01 Nov 06 07:44 AM LOL! What is your 'Position', Milky. I think MrP has already given a short and good explanation.    Anonymous

	Mike in Japan  #288122  Wed, 01 Nov 06 08:05 AM (Is there an echo in here?)    Mike in Japan

	milky  #288168  Wed, 01 Nov 06 10:46 AM  Anonymous wrote: LOL! What is your 'Position', Milky. I think MrP has already given a short and good explanation. Is it your position to remain anonymous?    milky

	milky  #288170  Wed, 01 Nov 06 10:47 AM  Mike In Japan wrote:  Milky wrote: Hey, Canadians, what's your take on this? Do you have a take on it, Milky? No I don't. You?    milky