The Present Perfect from a Diachronic Perspective: An Analysis of Aspectual and Tense Constructions

According to some historical linguists, the early English HAVE + past participle construction had only one meaning (e.g. Mustanoja 1960: 499-500, Carey 1994), namely the resultative perfect. However, recent research has demonstrated that the Old English HAVE + past participle construction has much m...

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Matična publikacija: 17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics
Zurich, Švicarska : 2012
Glavni autori: Žic Fuchs, Milena (-), Broz, Vlatko (Author)
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng
Online pristup: http://www.icehl-17.uzh.ch/static/start.xhtml