@peterbrown @meercat0 'Ich bin am gehen'. Dutch has 'ik ben aan het gaan'.
The English progressive tenses developed centuries after the arrival on the British Isles, when linguistic contact with the Celtic speaking peoples wasn't strong enough to cause grammatical changes. Contact has to be very intensive for that, a situation in which English would've been flooded with loanwords as well.
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