Easy-Breezy English,
Вы упрямая)).
Порылся у себя в архивах и обнаружил дополнительные подтверждения моим словам.
Вот вам в доказательство ещё одно исследование на этот раз 2013 года (предыдущее было 1999 года, если это имеет значение):
The progressive verb in modern American English
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ve ... AB7A4E8769
Three verbs with which the progressive is becoming increasingly established (LOVE, WANT and WISH) comprise three quarters of the progressive statives identified in COCA. In particular BE wanting, which occurs twice in a million words, is frequent. More detailed analysis shows that BE wanting is frequent in more spoken-like genres, where it typically fulfils one of two functions which are illustrated in the choice of co-occurring adverbs in (13) to (15).
(13) Hi. I was just wanting to know if you’re going to have another book out? (COCA; Spoken; 1991)
(14) He was always wanting to do the right thing. (COCA; Fiction; 2009)
(15) (...) it’s helped me come back on stage because I was really wanting to come back to you. (COCA; Spoken; 2000)
Firstly, just is used as a downtoner in tentative and polite requests, as in (13). More frequently, however, wanting expresses intensification, which is seen in the co-occurrence either with always30 (as in (14)), and more typically intensifying adverbs like really (as in(15)). In (14) a progressive stative, a feature which compresses the time-span of the activity (Leech 2004: 19), combines with a hyperbolic adverb extending the time-span. Furthermore, it can be argued that there are visible or audible signs of the mental state denoted by the verb at least in (13) and (14). In (13) the very fact that the speaker utters her wish to know the answer is an audible sign of her mental state, while (14) refers to the subject’s earlier activities which include expressions of his mental state.
Нумер 13 особенно тешит моё самолюбие.))
