Aorists and Perfects
Synchronic and diachronic perspectives
Published on 16. February 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-90-04-32664-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 Peruvian Spanish. Henderson argues for a theory based on Langacker's 'sequential scanning' in Chilean and Uruguayan Spanish. Delmas looks at 'Ua in Tahitian, a polysemic particle with a range of aspectual and modal meanings. Bourdin addresses the expression of anteriority with just in English. Yerastov examines the distribution of the transitive be Perfect in Canadian English. Fryd offers a panchronic study of have-less perfect constructions in English. Eide investigates counterfactual present perfects in Mainland Scandinavian dialects.
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"This accomplishment deserves its place among the canon of works dedicated to this important topic." ~ Chad Howe, University of Georgia, in Cercles (January 2019).More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-32664-4 (9789004326644)
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Marc Fryd, (Agregation 1986, Ph.D. - 1995, HDR - 2012), Universite de Poitiers, is Senior Lecturer in English linguistics. He has published mostly on variation in English, and also produced the Pronunciation lexicon of British place-names, first names and surnames database.
Pierre-Don Giancarli, Universite de Poitiers, Senior Lecturer in contrastive linguistics. After writing a Ph.D. devoted to bilingualism, his current research and publications focus on Corsican-French-English, the varieties of French spoken in Canada (Laurentian and Acadian) and language contacts in Chiac.
Contributors are: Philippe Bourdin, Claude Delmas, Bridget Drinka, Kristin Melum Eide, Marc Fryd, Carlos Henderson, Margarita Jara, Jim Walker, Yuri Yerastov.
Pierre-Don Giancarli, Universite de Poitiers, Senior Lecturer in contrastive linguistics. After writing a Ph.D. devoted to bilingualism, his current research and publications focus on Corsican-French-English, the varieties of French spoken in Canada (Laurentian and Acadian) and language contacts in Chiac.
Contributors are: Philippe Bourdin, Claude Delmas, Bridget Drinka, Kristin Melum Eide, Marc Fryd, Carlos Henderson, Margarita Jara, Jim Walker, Yuri Yerastov.