French ingressives and (phasal) aspect : a frame-semantic corpus-based analysis Universiteit Gent
This article compares the usage of commencer a 'to begin'+Vinf. and se mettre a 'to start' + Vinf. in modern French. Using a corpus sample of 2000 observations, we examined the effect of Adverbial complementation, of Event type (aspect), and of Tense. Based on a mixed-effects logistic regression analysis, we found evidence for Event type, where se mettre a is associated with activities, and Tense, where se mettre a seems to be associated with ...