The perfect time span :: on the present perfect in German, Swedish and English /

This book is the first book-length study on the Swedish present perfect. It provides an in-depth exploration of the present perfect in English, German and Swedish. It is claimed that only a discourse-based ExtendedNow-approach fully accounts for the present perfect. The main claim is that the length...

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1. Verfasser: Rothstein, Björn
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008.
Schriftenreihe:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 125.
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Zusammenfassung:This book is the first book-length study on the Swedish present perfect. It provides an in-depth exploration of the present perfect in English, German and Swedish. It is claimed that only a discourse-based ExtendedNow-approach fully accounts for the present perfect. The main claim is that the length of the ExtendedNow-interval varies cross-linguistically. The book is couched within the framework of the Discourse Representation Theory and also within Distributed Morphology. It is shown that Swedish provides empirical evidence against all previous research in the field. The following questions a.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vii, 170 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index.
ISBN:9789027290717
9027290717
128210568X
9781282105683
6612105682
9786612105685
ISSN:0166-0829 ;

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