overloadedness

English

Etymology

overloaded +‎ -ness

Noun

overloadedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or condition of being overloaded.
    • 2008, Junichi Toyota, Diachronic Change in the English Passive‎, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 39:
      If have emerged as a perfective marker due to the overloadedness of be, then how come be gains its use as a progressive marker or verbal passive marker later?

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