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The Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect
Edited by Kristin Melum Eide and Marc Fryd
[Studies in Language Companion Series 217] 2021
► pp. 1–40

Chapter 1
The perfect volume

Papers on the perfect

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Delimiting and describing the perfect: Typological approaches
  • 3.Morphology: Synthetic, periphrastic, ellipsis and expansion
  • 4.Semantics, prototypical readings and aoristic drift
  • 5.Evidentiality and the perfect
  • 6.The (present) perfect: Tense or aspect?
  • 7.The present perfect puzzle, remote and immediate past
  • 8.Overview and summary of the contributions in this volume
    • 8.1Part I: Perfects and their relatives: Typology, diachrony, and variation
    • 8.2Part II: Perfect extensions, hodiernality and aoristic drift
    • 8.3Part III: Morphology of perfects: Development, selection and omission
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 9 July 2021
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