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Verbal tense, defined as the “grammaticalization of location in time,” commonly serves in
natural language to anchor the situation described by the sentence to the time axis. Aspect …

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 …

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Specification by certain temporal adverbials has been shown to be one of the typical triggers
of the present perfect in British English. Often, however, L2 varieties display different …

Introduction to Part I 9 1 About noticing: Becoming a linguistic ethnographer 11 2 About
correctness: What is 'good'language? 26 3 About belonging: How does language enact …

Murrinhpatha, an Aboriginal language of northern Australia, has an initial k-alternation in
verbs that has hitherto been resistant to grammatical analysis. I argue that k-does not …

There are two significant factors determining the issues discussed in this chapter. The first is
its focus on “discourse and text,” ie, on tense and aspect in the context of attested forms of …

Studies of grammatical change in the Late Modern English period have concentrated almost
exclusively on British and American English. This paper is the first to trace grammatical …

There has been so much work in the literature on the tense/aspect system of contemporary
English, and particularly on the vexed matter of the Present Perfect, henceforth PP, that it …