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 are investigated: Is it possible to assign a single uniform meaning to the present perfect? How can we account for the different readings of the perfect? How can we account for the cross-linguistic variation?
These issues are addressed from a comparative perspective by integrating previous research on the present perfect. This book is of interest to all those working in the field of tense and aspect.
| ISBN: | 9789027255082 |
| Publication date: | 28th August 2008 |
| Author: | Björn Rothstein |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 170 pages |
| Series: | Linguistik Aktuell |
| Genres: |
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics |
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.
The Perfect Time Span features in the following genres: Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
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The Perfect Time Span was written by Björn Rothstein and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company
The Perfect Time Span has 170 pages
Yes it is part of Linguistik Aktuell series