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Publication details [#33137]
Yamaguchi, Toshiko and Magnús Pétursson. 2003. The speaker and the perfective auxiliaries hafa and vera in Icelandic. Language Sciences 25 (3) : 331–352. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Multilingual Matters
ISBN
0388-0001
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper attempts to explain the behavior of the two Icelandic perfective auxiliary verbs, hafa 'have' and vera 'be', from semantic and pragmatic perspectives, with a special focus on vera.