Add to ORKGThe PERFECT constitutes a puzzling category for typologists, historical linguists and formal semanticists alike. Is it a tense? Is it an aspect? Which grammatical forms qualify as PERFECTS? What is the core of the PERFECT meaning? This short paper suggests that progress can be made if we start using the wealth of digitized language data that has become available to uncover the semantics of the PERFECT through its contextual usages across languages
The previous literature established the set of ‘perfect’ readings, including experiential/existentia...
Modern theorists rarely agree on how to represent the categories of tense and aspect, making a consi...
This paper explores the- meanings and distribution of the perfect in contemporary American English p...
The PERFECT constitutes a puzzling category for typologists, historical linguists and formal semanti...
The PERFECT constitutes a puzzling category for typologists, historical linguists and formal semanti...
The goal of this paper is to establish how certain aspects of the meaning of the perfect are compose...
The Range of the Perfect in Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Portuguese and Southern Italian dialects This MA ...
International audienceThis paper provides both a cross-linguistic/diachronical typology and a formal...
International audienceThis paper provides both a cross-linguistic/diachronical typology and a formal...
The article studies Perfect in German, English and Old Russian. Perfect is a complicated past tense,...
This paper is based on Joan Bybee, Östen Dahl and other linguists’ insights about development patter...
This paper offers an analysis of the semantics of the perfect in Nafsan (South Efate) and argues for...
Since Reichenbach (1947), the Present Perfect has been discussed in relation to the Simple Past. The...
The paper argues that the raison d’être of the present perfect (PP) across languages is not in its m...
The paper argues that the raison d’être of the present perfect (PP) across languages is not in its m...
The previous literature established the set of ‘perfect’ readings, including experiential/existentia...
Modern theorists rarely agree on how to represent the categories of tense and aspect, making a consi...
This paper explores the- meanings and distribution of the perfect in contemporary American English p...
The PERFECT constitutes a puzzling category for typologists, historical linguists and formal semanti...
The PERFECT constitutes a puzzling category for typologists, historical linguists and formal semanti...
The goal of this paper is to establish how certain aspects of the meaning of the perfect are compose...
The Range of the Perfect in Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Portuguese and Southern Italian dialects This MA ...
International audienceThis paper provides both a cross-linguistic/diachronical typology and a formal...
International audienceThis paper provides both a cross-linguistic/diachronical typology and a formal...
The article studies Perfect in German, English and Old Russian. Perfect is a complicated past tense,...
This paper is based on Joan Bybee, Östen Dahl and other linguists’ insights about development patter...
This paper offers an analysis of the semantics of the perfect in Nafsan (South Efate) and argues for...
Since Reichenbach (1947), the Present Perfect has been discussed in relation to the Simple Past. The...
The paper argues that the raison d’être of the present perfect (PP) across languages is not in its m...
The paper argues that the raison d’être of the present perfect (PP) across languages is not in its m...
The previous literature established the set of ‘perfect’ readings, including experiential/existentia...
Modern theorists rarely agree on how to represent the categories of tense and aspect, making a consi...
This paper explores the- meanings and distribution of the perfect in contemporary American English p...