Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: History of English Morphology, language: English, abstract: The Progressive Form is a feature that distinguishes the English language from all other Germanic languages, which have no parallel construction to offer. But not only is it rare, it is also special in a way that over the development of English its frequency has been in increase. It is for these reasons that this paper tries to determine to what extent the...