The Present Perfect and Definite Temporal Adverbials: Reference Grammars and Corpus Evidence

The aim of the present paper is to assess the adequacy of how the grammatical status of the present perfect (PP) is established in three reference grammars of English (Quirk et al. 1985; Biber et al. 1999; Huddleston and Pullum 2002). I propose that the categorizations both as aspect and as tense as...

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Main Author: Valentin Werner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2013-05-01
Series:ELOPE
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Online Access:https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope/article/view/3196