Diego de Acosta
List of John Benjamins publications for which Diego de Acosta plays a role.
Article
2011 Rethinking the genesis of the Romance periphrastic perfect Diachronica 28:2, pp. 143–185 | Article
The Romance languages all display periphrastic perfects that can be traced to Latin [habere “have” + noun + perfect participle]. A new survey of the Latin corpus reveals that this string had three distinct structures and values. I argue that the likeliest source of the perfects is a periphrasis… read more