This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a
linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics …

Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the
Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this …

The loss of the preterite form in German dialects is still a disputed and unresolved matter.
The article summarizes the results of a new study that analyzes several dialectological …

The theoretical study of perfects tends to be based on data from European languages,
particularly English. To find the proper place for perfects, we have to go beyond English to …

Abstract is study explores grammatical markers with meanings similar to the English
perfect tense and words like already, as found in numerous languages across the world, and …

This paper challenges the cross-linguistic validity of the tense–aspect category 'perfect'by
investigating 15 languages from eight different families (Atayal, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch …

This paper reports on a literary corpus study of four grammatical tenses across four
European languages. The corpus consists of a selection of eight chapters from Javier …

The western European present perfect is subject to substantial crosslinguistic variation. The
literature, however, focuses on individual languages or on comparisons of a restricted …

The paper presents a detailed corpus-based analysis of the German prospective stehen vor
NP light verb construction. The starting point of the analysis is the claim that the construction …

According to Bauer, the Present Perfect (HAVE+ V-en; henceforth PrPf)“has always been a
somewhat inconvenient case”(1970: 189) in research on English grammar. The elusiveness …