growing aware of 的語法現象

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 ... 做后置定語修飾person。但growing我查了詞典只有形容詞詞性，而aware是形容詞，感覺growing是副詞匯法上才說得通。我查了原文，此句引述正確，來自《The Idea of theUniversity》 by Karl Jaspers。請問這里growing是什么語法現象?

這里的 growing 是系動詞 grow 的目前分詞形式。系動詞后面接形容詞非常正常吧。