This study focuses on a set of "be going to V" and "be going to be V-ing" concordances from a large corpus of general English reflecting present-day usage. Our first goal is to determine whether "be going to V" and "be going to be V-ing" can be considered variants of the same construction, by comparing some of their morpho-syntactic patterns of use. Our second goal is to examine whether the assignment of the interpretative semantic labels ‘intentionality’ and ‘predictability’ to instances of "be going to V" correlates with semantic-syntactic features of their immediate co-text, the underlying motivation being that the locus of a unit of meaning is often an extended phraseology.
GOING TO V vs GOING TO BE V-ing: Two equivalent patterns?
FACCHINETTI, Roberta
2011-01-01
Abstract
This study focuses on a set of "be going to V" and "be going to be V-ing" concordances from a large corpus of general English reflecting present-day usage. Our first goal is to determine whether "be going to V" and "be going to be V-ing" can be considered variants of the same construction, by comparing some of their morpho-syntactic patterns of use. Our second goal is to examine whether the assignment of the interpretative semantic labels ‘intentionality’ and ‘predictability’ to instances of "be going to V" correlates with semantic-syntactic features of their immediate co-text, the underlying motivation being that the locus of a unit of meaning is often an extended phraseology.
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