Introducing English Grammar introduces readers to the methodology and terminology
needed to analyse English sentences. The approach taken is in line with current research in …

Although many previous studies have tried to explain the English perfect's various readings,
none of them have been entirely successful. In this article, we argue that the perfect is …

For past-time reference, Present-Day English (PDE) has a choice between the present
perfect (I have seen her) and the simple past tense (I saw her). With temporal adverbials like …

This paper examines the discourse quotatives of Australian English (AE) found in
sociolinguistic interviews with adolescents. The investigation focuses on a description of the …

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 …

This thesis is a sociolinguistic study of Preterit and Present Perfect (PP) usage in
contemporary and earlier Argentinian River Plate Spanish (ARPS). The data analyzed stem …

The English quotative system (featuring forms such as say, think, zero, go, all and be like
used in direct speech reproduction and thought) has been the subject of vigorous, in-depth …

Passé composé et passé simple : Sémantique diachronique et formelle Patrick CAUDAL
Carl VETTERS Page 1 © Cahiers Chronos 16 (2007) : 121-151. Passé composé et passé …

This paper examines extensions in present perfect (PP) usage in a corpus of police media
reports published on the web in Australia, following previous work on extensions in the uses …

This paper investigates the frequency of the present perfect (PP) in 20 national varieties of
English with data from the 1.9 billion word Corpus of Global Web-based English (GloWbE) …