Table of contents
Chapter 1.The perfect volume: Papers on the perfect
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Part I.Perfects and their relatives: Typology, diachrony, and variation
Chapter 2.“Universal” readings of perfects and iamitives in typological
perspective
43
Chapter 3.Perfect and its relatives in Atayal
65
Chapter 4.Structural and functional variations of the perfect in the Lezgic
languages
87
Chapter 5.Cross-linguistic parallels and contrasts in a contact language perfect
construction
117
Chapter 6.Perfect and negation: Evidence from Lithuanian and sundry languages
137
Chapter 7.The diachrony of the perfect in Zapotec
163
Part II.Perfect extensions, hodiernality and aoristic drift
Chapter 8.More on hodiernality
181
Chapter 9.The impact of the simultaneity vector on the temporal-aspectual
development of the perfect tense in Romance languages
213
Chapter 10.Gauging expansion in synchrony: The periphrastic perfect in nineteenth-century Rioplatense
Spanish
241
Part III.Morphology of perfects: Development, selection and omission
Chapter 11.The rise of the periphrastic perfect tense in the continental West
Germanic languages
261
Chapter 12.On the emergence of auxiliary selection in Germanic
291
Chapter 13.Language contact and competition in the periphrastic perfect in Early
English
319
Chapter 14.The Swedish perfect and periphrasis
343
Chapter 15.“Have-less perfects” in Norwegian: An Old Norse heritage
365
Chapter 16.From have-omission to supercompounds: A wealth of English perfects
397
Chapter 17.Auxiliary reduction in secondary grammaticalization: Evidence from the Spanish periphrastic past
439
Chapter 18.The functions of the auxiliary ‘have’ in Australian English vivid
narratives
461
Index
479
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