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Publication details [#6633]
McCawley, James D. 1981. Notes on the English present perfect. Australian Journal of Linguistics 1 (1) : 81–90. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Journal WWW
Annotation
A discussion of some aspects of the present perfect in terms of a notion of pragmatic presupposition according to which the interpretation of sentences is based on what the speaker and addressee take to be shared knowledge (rather than the knowledge or beliefs they have individually).