Review by Henk Verkuyl After having rejected the so-called Anteriority Theories of the Perfect
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After having rejected the so-called Anteriority Theories of the Perfect tense which are based on the Reichenbachian E-R,S and E-R-S schemes where E-R is to be taken as expressing the earlier than relation E<R, the author argues in favour of a tense theory in which the notion of the Extended Now (EN) plays a dominant role. She also rejects theories in which the Perfect is analyzed syncategorematically as well as other EN-theories that turn out to have empirical or technical problems. The notion of an Extended Now involves two ingredients: (i) a time unit t is taken as a now, a present (of some sort); and (ii) an interval t' is anchored in t and “stretched back” from t into the past to which the predication expressed by the sentence is applied. The intuition behind the notion is to make a sort of bridge between the sense of pastness (of the eventuality described by the predication) and the sense of relevance for the present. It is given a formal place in the definition for the German Perfect in (1a) repeated here as
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