Aorists and perfects : : synchronic and diachronic perspectives / / edited by Marc Fryd, Pierre-Don Giancarli.
This volume gathers nine contributions dealing with Aorists and Perfects. Drinka challenges the notion of Aoristic Drift in Romance languages. Walker considers two emergent uses of the Perfect in British English. Jara seeks to determine the constraints on tense choice within narrative discourse in P...
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| Superior document: | Cahiers Chronos, Volume 29 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill-Rodopi,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cahiers Chronos ;
Volume 29. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 pages) :; illustrations, maps, tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter / Marc Fryd and Pierre-Don Giancarli
- Introduction / Marc Fryd and Pierre-Don Giancarli
- Romance Perfects, Aorists, and the Role of ‘Aoristic Drift’ / Bridget Drinka
- The Present Perfect Has Only Gone And Changed, Hasn’t It? The Continuing Divergence of the Narrative Perfect / Jim Walker
- The Present Perfect in Peruvian Spanish: An Analysis of Personal Experience Narratives among Migrant Generations in Lima / Margarita Jara
- Summary and Sequential Scanning in the Compound and Simple Past of Chilean and Uruguayan Dialects of Spanish / Carlos Henderson
- The Tahitian Particle ’Ua, Some Uses / Claude Manuel Delmas
- Have Just V-en and Just V-ed: If Hot News or Recency Don’t Cut It, Just What Does? / Philippe Bourdin
- The Kids Are Finished School: A Corpus Study of Geographical Distribution / Yuri Yerastov
- Some Remarks on have-less Perfect Constructions in English / Marc Fryd
- Counterfactual Present Perfects / Kristin Melum Eide.