The Perfect Time Span

Name: The Perfect Time Span | On the present perfect in German, Swedish and English
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On the present perfect in German, Swedish and English

Björn Rothstein(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 28. August 2008

XI, 171 Seiten

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The Perfect Time Span
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Preliminaries
1. Outline
2. Time and tense
3. On Reichenbach'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
5.1 Introduction: Tense and aspect approaches to the perfect
5.2 Anteriority-approaches
5.3 ExtendedNow-theories
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
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The present perfect as a stative construction
9.3 The present perfect as a non-stative construction
9.4 Conclusion so far
9.5 Accounting for stative and non-stative uses
9.6 A short note on the pluperfect
9.7 Conclusion
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
3.1 The inferential present perfect is not a present perfect
3.2 The inferential present perfect is not a past tense
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
7.1 Parasitic morphology sheds light on architecture of grammar
7.2 Distributed Morphology
7.3 An account of parasitic morphology in the framework of DM
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
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Semantic vs. pragmatic accounts of the perfect perfect readings
11.3 Situation type aspect, adverbials and the perfect readings
11.4 The readings are context sensitive
12. Conclusion
Chapter 6
Conclusion
References
Index
The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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