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Publication details [#32368]
Portner, Paul. 2003. The (Temporal) Semantics and (Modal) Pragmatics of the Perfect. Linguistics and Philosophy 26 (3) : 459–510. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Kluwer
ISBN
0165-0157
Journal WWW
Annotation
This proposal improves on the Extended Now theory (McCoard 1978 and others), by demonstrating that many aspects of the English perfect's meaning may be factored out into independent semantic or pragmatic principles.