German beim-progressive exists: Evidence from acceptability rating and self-paced reading
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2012/05/0005/000211Keywords:
progressive, German, complementation, acceptability rating, self-paced readingAbstract
This study investigates the behavior of the German prepositional progressive with respect to object complementation by running an acceptability rating and a self-paced reading task. Previous corpus studies showed that complements are usually incorporated when occurring with the prepositional am- or beim-progressive. In contrast, this study provides empirical evidence that German native speakers also accept non-incorporated complements in the beim-progressive. Furthermore, there is a tendency towards higher acceptability of the beim-progressive than the structurally similar, yet more frequent, am-progressive.
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