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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 …

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 …

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 …

In this paper we examine sociolinguistic constraints on the narrative present perfect (PP) in
Australian English (eg He couldn't talk. That's how freaked out he was. And I've just yelled …

Kala Lagaw Ya is the language of the Western Torres Strait islands, with two main dialects
centred around Saibai Island and Mabuiag Island. It exhibits complex tense/aspect marking …

The functions of the simple past and the present perfect appear to be well delimited in
English according to prescriptive grammars. However, in actual use their distribution is still a …

This paper deals with the “hot news” use of the English present perfect. Previous research
has suggested that this use marks the end point of the perfect category, paving the way for …

194 Patrick Caudal l'aspect»(forcément synthétiques), et les temps analytiques combinant
des opérateurs aspectuels et temporels morphologiquement autonomes, avec portée …

The articles included in this issue of the Australian Journal of Linguistics, along with the
article 'The functions of reported speech and thought in Umpithamu narratives' by Jean …