The present volume offers a collection of nine contributions dealing with the aspectual and temporal dimensions of the perfect and the aorist and based on data in Romance -- in particular Spanish--, Tahitian, English, and Scandinavian languages.
Author(s): Marc Fryd; Pierre-Don Giancarli
Edition: ebook
Publisher: Brill/Rodopi
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 0
Contents......Page 5
List of Figures, Tables and Maps......Page 7
Introduction (Fryd and Giancarli)......Page 9
Chapter 1. Romance Perfects, Aorists, and the Role of ‘Aoristic Drift’ (Drinka)......Page 13
Chapter 2. The Present Perfect Has Only Gone And Changed, Hasn’t It? The Continuing Divergence of the Narrative Perfect (Walker)......Page 33
Chapter 3. The Present Perfect in Peruvian Spanish: An Analysis of Personal Experience Narratives among Migrant Generations in Lima (Jara)......Page 50
Chapter 4. Summary and Sequential Scanning in the Compound and Simple Past of Chilean and Uruguayan Dialects of Spanish (Henderson)......Page 87
Chapter 5. The Tahitian Particle ’Ua, Some Uses (Delmas)......Page 118
Chapter 6. Have Just V-en and Just V-ed: If Hot News or Recency Don’t Cut It, Just What Does? (Bourdin)......Page 144
Chapter 7. The Kids Are Finished School: A Corpus Study of Geographical Distribution (Yerastov)......Page 187
Chapter 8. Some Remarks on have-less Perfect Constructions in English (Fryd)......Page 211
Chapter 9. Counterfactual Present Perfects (Eide)......Page 253
