Perfective Marking in the Breton Tense-Aspect System

The tense-aspect system of Breton, a continental Celtic language, is largely under-described. This paper has two main goals. First, it gives an overview the numerous verbal morphosyntactic constructions with aim evaluating how they carve up domain. second goal to zero in on one particular set constructions, namely, perfect-like constructions. In particular, investigates use present perfect narrative and oral discourse, compared other competing simple past perfect. spirit de Swart Le Bruyn’s Time Translation project, we adopt parallel corpus-based approach from Harry Potter Philosopher’s Stone its Breton translation. We develop account distinction between these temporal forms, perfects, drawing interaction rhetorical relations structure. Results show that written stretches, norm; however, dialogues, required cases ‘weak’ narration, if situation somehow felt be currently relevant, even refers explicit time. However, occurs stretches within dialogue, ‘strong’ especially described anaphorically tied antecedent.