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Re-Assessing the Present Perfect

Re-Assessing the Present Perfect

Hardcover

Series: Topics in English Linguistics, Book 91

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110443112
ISBN13: 9783110443110
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Sep 12 2016
Pages: 363
Weight: 1.62
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

It is a well-known fact that the area of the present perfect has always been a hotly contested ground, but recent corpus analyses have shown that grammatical variation in this realm in English is far more pervasive than previously assumed.
This volume is the first ever book-length treatment dedicated to corpus-based work on the present perfect. It offers fresh theoretical insights resting on a solid empirical footing and investigates central aspects of language contact and change, grammaticalization, typology, and dialect formation. It sheds light on this morphosyntactic area from different angles, as it comprises both diachronic and synchronic viewpoints. Contributions explore variation in the expression of perfect meaning and the multifunctionality of perfect forms in a number of native and non-native varieties, thus going beyond the traditional British/American English paradigm, while a second focus lies on cross-variety comparisons.

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