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Schwenter, Scott A. 1994. "Hot news" and the grammaticalization of perfects. Linguistics 32 (6) : 995–1028.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
function | grammaticalization | perfect | perfective
Language as a subject
English | Spanish
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0024-3949
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper explores the 'hot news' function of perfect constructions with 'have' in English and Spanish.