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963259
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Rothstein, Björn.
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The perfect time span : : on the present perfect in German, Swedish and English /\ Björn Rothstein.
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| Publication Statement
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Amsterdam ;Philadelphia :: John Benjamins Pub.,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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Linguistik aktuell,; v. 125
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1 online resource (vii, 170 pages) :: illustrations.
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128210568X
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: 6612105682
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: 9027290717
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: 9781282105683
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: 9786612105685
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: 9789027290717
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9027255083
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9789027255082
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index.
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| Contents
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Cover -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data13; -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 -- Preliminaries -- 1. Outline -- 2. Time and tense -- 3. On Reichenbach8217;s approach to tense -- 4. Different notions of the reference time -- 5. Why there is a reference time in the present perfect -- 6. On tense again -- 7. On the formal implementation of tense -- 8. Conclusion -- Chapter 2 -- The components of the perfect meaning -- 1. The present perfect -- 2. The German data -- 3. The Swedish data -- 4. The English data -- 5. Former approaches to the German present perfect -- 6. Former approaches to the Swedish present perfect -- 7. Former approaches to the English present perfect -- 8. A (new) ExtendedNow-analysis for the present perfect -- 9. Identifying the stative component -- 10. Why the present perfect differs cross-linguistically -- The perfect conclusion -- Chapter 3 -- Adverbials and the perfect -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prior analyses -- 3. The meaning of the present perfect -- 4. On temporal adverbials -- 5. On the present perfect puzzle -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 4 -- The inferential present perfect in Swedish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Former approaches -- 3. On the status of the inferential present perfect -- 4. The inferential meaning of the present perfect -- 5. The meaning contribution of evidential markers -- 6. The inferential present perfect is an infinitival perfect -- 7. On parasitic morphology in Swedish -- 8. Perfect parasitism in inferential contexts -- 9. The null modal hypothesis -- 10. The lost present perfect puzzle -- 11. DRT and DM -- 12. Conclusion -- Chapter 5 -- Perfect readings -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The meaning of the present perfect -- 3. The readings of the present perfect -- 4. The approach by Musan(1999, 2002) -- 5. Present perfect and event time modification -- 6. Preterite reading and situation type aspect (Aktionsart) -- 7. Present perfect in discourse -- 8. Present perfect that is followed by a present perfect/past tense -- 9. Present perfect that is followed by a present tense -- 10. The present perfect in a context without context -- 11. Universal and experiential readings of the present perfect -- 12. Conclusion -- Chapter 6 -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
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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.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Tense.
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Languages, Modern-- Tense.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Tense.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Grammar Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.
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| Dewey Classification
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415/.6
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| LC Classification
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PB159.R68 2008eb
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