Re-assessing the Present Perfect /

Re-assessing the Present Perfect / / ed. by Elena Seoane, Valentin Werner, Cristina Suárez-Gómez.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bowie, Jill,
Davydova, Julia,
Filppula, Markku,
Fuchs, Robert,
Götz, Sandra,
Johannsen, Berit,
Louro, Celeste Rodríguez,
Richard, Sophie,
Rooy, Bertus van,
Rothstein, Björn,
Seoane, Elena,
Suárez-Gómez, Cristina,
Wallis, Sean,
Werner, Valentin,
HerausgeberIn:
Seoane, Elena,
Suárez-Gómez, Cristina,
Werner, Valentin,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Seiten 4C: 235, 317
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 91
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Physical Description:1 online resource (353 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations
  • 0. Introduction: The present perfect – a re-assessment
  • Part I: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the perfect in native varieties of English
  • 1. From possessive-resultative to perfect? Re-assessing the meaning of [hæbb- + past participle] constructions in Old English prose
  • 2. The to-infinitival perfect: A study of decline
  • 3. Expression of the perfect in two contact varieties of English
  • 4. Narrative-embedded variation and change: The sociolinguistics of the Australian English narrative present perfect
  • Part II: Perfects across varieties of English
  • 5. Present perfect and past tense in Black South African English
  • 6. The present perfect in New Englishes: Common patterns in situations of language contact
  • 7. The perfect space in creole-related varieties of English: The case of Jamaican English
  • 8. The frequency of the present perfect in varieties of English around the world
  • 9. Rise of the undead? be-perfects in World Englishes
  • Part III: Building bridges
  • 10. The present perfect in learner Englishes: A corpus-based case study on L1 German intermediate and advanced speech and writing
  • 11. Afterthought: Some brief remarks on autonomous and speaker-centered linguistic approaches to the present perfect
  • Subject index

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