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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data13;
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1
- Preliminaries
- 1. Outline
- 2. Time and tense
- 3. On Reichenbach8217;s approach to tense
- 4. Different notions of the reference time
- 5. Why there is a reference time in the present perfect
- 6. On tense again
- 7. On the formal implementation of tense
- 8. Conclusion
- Chapter 2
- The components of the perfect meaning
- 1. The present perfect
- 2. The German data
- 3. The Swedish data
- 4. The English data
- 5. Former approaches to the German present perfect
- 6. Former approaches to the Swedish present perfect
- 7. Former approaches to the English present perfect
- 8. A (new) ExtendedNow-analysis for the present perfect
- 9. Identifying the stative component
- 10. Why the present perfect differs cross-linguistically
- The perfect conclusion
- Chapter 3
- Adverbials and the perfect
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Prior analyses
- 3. The meaning of the present perfect
- 4. On temporal adverbials
- 5. On the present perfect puzzle
- 6. Conclusion
- Chapter 4
- The inferential present perfect in Swedish
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Former approaches
- 3. On the status of the inferential present perfect
- 4. The inferential meaning of the present perfect
- 5. The meaning contribution of evidential markers
- 6. The inferential present perfect is an infinitival perfect
- 7. On parasitic morphology in Swedish
- 8. Perfect parasitism in inferential contexts
- 9. The null modal hypothesis
- 10. The lost present perfect puzzle
- 11. DRT and DM
- 12. Conclusion
- Chapter 5
- Perfect readings
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The meaning of the present perfect
- 3. The readings of the present perfect
- 4. The approach by Musan(1999, 2002)
- 5. Present perfect and event time modification
- 6. Preterite reading and situation type aspect (Aktionsart)
- 7. Present perfect in discourse
- 8. Present perfect that is followed by a present perfect/past tense
- 9. Present perfect that is followed by a present tense
- 10. The present perfect in a context without context
- 11. Universal and experiential readings of the present perfect
- 12. Conclusion
- Chapter 6
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.