Peter Petré is a postdoctoral researcher of
the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
on a project entitled The
transition from bounded to (partly) unbounded event construal in
Middle English. The project is concerned with the effect on
morphosyntax of changing strategies of narration towards an increased
use of unbounded construal (emphasizing overlap of events) in Middle
English, and relates seemingly independent phenomena such as changing
word order, loss of þa ‘then’, rise of the progressive
and of ingressive aspectualizers. The project continues Petré’s
general interest in the diachronic application of constructionist
approaches to language change.
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