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The perfect time span : on the present perfect in German, Swedish and English /
This book is the first book-length study on the Swedish present perfect. It provides an in-depth exploration of the present perfect in English, German and Swedish. It is claimed that only a discourse-based ExtendedNow-approach fully accounts for the present perfect. The main claim is that the length...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 125. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is the first book-length study on the Swedish present perfect. It provides an in-depth exploration of the present perfect in English, German and Swedish. It is claimed that only a discourse-based ExtendedNow-approach fully accounts for the present perfect. The main claim is that the length of the ExtendedNow-interval varies cross-linguistically. The book is couched within the framework of the Discourse Representation Theory and also within Distributed Morphology. It is shown that Swedish provides empirical evidence against all previous research in the field. The following questions a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 170 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027290717 9027290717 128210568X 9781282105683 6612105682 9786612105685 |
| ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |