Intermediate perfects
نویسندگان
چکیده
Abstract The cross-linguistic variation in distribution and meaning of perfect constructions building on have + past participle Western European languages has been analysed terms the aoristic drift , shift from resultative via to perfective that takes us ‘classical’ like English ‘liberal’ French. This paper challenges (often implicit) assumption there is a single path along drift, resulting linear scale. Data coming translation corpora reveal three ‘intermediate’ (Dutch, Catalan Breton) sensitive lexical aspect (state vs. event), narrativity hodiernal pre-hodiernal time reference. These ingredients appear different combinations languages, thereby establishing them as independent dimensions variation. conclusion are multiple paths implications for semantics tense aspect.
منابع مشابه
I2r speech2singing perfects everyone's singing
High-quality natural singing is appealing to everyone. However, singing well is not trivial. Professional singers are trained and practised over the years for various singing skills, such as sense of rhythm, precision in pitch, vocal control and personal styling etc. We, Institute for Infocomm Research (IR), in Singapore has developed a personalized, real-time singing synthesis technology for t...
متن کاملPerfects as Feature Shifting Operators
The original purpose of what follows was to deal with a problem that arises for ‘pure result state’ accounts of the perfect, which treat perfects as operators that transform event and state descriptions into descriptions of corresponding result states and make these the target of location in time by tenses and temporal adverbs. In the form in which we endorsed this approach for many years ((Kam...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Languages in Contrast
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1569-9897', '1387-6759']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.22008.cor