Re: [tied] Lexically Specified Aspect in English? (was: Subjunctive)

>'stative verbs', which
>may be defined as verbs that (almost) lack progressive forms.
>Examples are 'own' and 'be'. My personal preference is to say that
>the progressive is largely lacking in these verbs because it adds
>nothing to the meaning, ...

Remember there is more than one form of English. Verbs which have no
progressive in one "standard" do have in others - such as Indian English.
So the presence or absence of a progressive might tell us far less about the
internal structure of a language than we think - it may be a social or
cultural thing.

Peter