Publications

Publication details [#14028]

Depraetere, Ilse. 1998. On the resultative character of present perfect sentences. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (5) : 597–613.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

Language as a subject

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

It is shown that processing present perfect sentences calls for a partly semantic, partly pragmatic explanation of 'current relevance'.