Publications

Publication details [#759]

Anderson, Lloyd B. 1982. The 'perfect' as a universal and as a language-specific category. In Hopper, Paul J., ed. Tense-Aspect: Between semantics and pragmatics. Containing the contributions to a symposium on tense and aspect, held at UCLA, May 1979. John Benjamins. pp. 227–264.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language universal | perfect

Annotation

An attempt to develop a method to cope with the problem that certain grammatical categories, such as 'perfect', do not have exactly the same range of uses in languages so that they are difficult to use and to compare across languages.