The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier English / / Johan Elsness.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
21 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) :; Num. figs. |
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Table of Contents:
- I-VIII
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Towards a theory of the perfect and the preterite in present-day English
- 3. The use of the perfect and the preterite in present-day English
- 4. The perfect and the preterite in the history of English
- 5. Summary and conclusion
- Notes
- Appendix I. Symbols used in quotations from text categories in CONTCORP made up of transcripts of spoken sources
- Appendix II. Composition of CONTCORP
- Appendix III. Composition of HISTCORP
- Index of authors
- Index of subjects