The Analytic Construction with Aspectual Semantics inModern Swedish
The article deals with the semantic scope of the Swedish periphrastic construction hålla på + inﬁ nitive and its functioning in various types of contexts. This construction with a relatively low level of grammaticalization, used with terminative verbs, has broad aspectual semantics of limited duration and expresses a moment or part of an action at which its limit (result) has not yet been reached.