growing aware of 的语法现象

Take the following example: a spiritually shallow person growing awareof his own futility in the course of engaging in the endless reflectionsimposed by science.

句中growing aware of ... 做后置定语修饰person。但growing我查了词典只有形容词词性，而aware是形容词，感觉growing是副词汇法上才说得通。我查了原文，此句引述正确，来自《The Idea of theUniversity》 by Karl Jaspers。请问这里growing是什么语法现象?

这里的 growing 是系动词 grow 的目前分词形式。系动词后面接形容词非常正常吧。