The Perfect Volume
Papers on the perfect
Drawing on the data and history from a wide range of languages, from Atayal to Zapotec, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field of tense and aspect research resulting in 18 contributions on the perfect and some of its close relatives (e.g. iamitives). Different approaches complement each other to shed light on the source, emergence, grammaticalization, and the typological extension of perfect constructions cross-linguistically. One focal point is the so-called aoristic drift, where the perfect comes to resemble the simple past or aorist (often via the hodiernal ‘today’ reading). The semantics and pragmatics of perfects are also investigated through their interaction with other categories (e.g. negation, mood). Over time some perfects undergo auxiliary doubling or omission, or the auxiliary becomes subject to selection. These facts also receive special attention in this book, presenting new insights on perfects in both well-studied as well as very understudied languages.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 217] 2021. vii, 485 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. The perfect volume: Papers on the perfectKristin Melum Eide and Marc Fryd | pp. 1–40
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Part I. Perfects and their relatives: Typology, diachrony, and variation
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Chapter 2. “Universal” readings of perfects and iamitives in typological perspectiveÖsten Dahl | pp. 43–64
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Chapter 3. Perfect and its relatives in AtayalIrene Gorbunova | pp. 65–86
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Chapter 4. Structural and functional variations of the perfect in the Lezgic languagesTimur Maisak | pp. 87–116
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Chapter 5. Cross-linguistic parallels and contrasts in a contact language perfect constructionPeter Slomanson | pp. 117–136
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Chapter 6. Perfect and negation: Evidence from Lithuanian and sundry languagesPeter Arkadiev | pp. 137–162
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Chapter 7. The diachrony of the perfect in ZapotecGeorge Aaron Broadwell | pp. 163–178
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Part II. Perfect extensions, hodiernality and aoristic drift
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Chapter 8. More on hodiernalityTeresa M. Xiqués | pp. 181–212
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Chapter 9. The impact of the simultaneity vector on the temporal-aspectual development of the perfect tense in Romance languagesSusana Azpiazu Torres | pp. 213–240
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Chapter 10. Gauging expansion in synchrony: The periphrastic perfect in nineteen century Rioplatense SpanishGuro Nore Fløgstad and Celeste Rodríguez Louro | pp. 241–258
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Part III. Morphology of perfects: Development, selection and omission
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Chapter 11. The rise of the periphrastic perfect tense in the continental West Germanic languagesHans Broekhuis | pp. 261–290
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Chapter 12. On the emergence of auxiliary selection in GermanicIda Larsson | pp. 291–318
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Chapter 13. Language contact and competition in the periphrastic perfect in Early EnglishTamás Eitler and Gábor Vadász | pp. 319–342
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Chapter 14. The Swedish perfect and periphrasisFredrik Heinat | pp. 343–364
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Chapter 15. “Have-less perfects” in Norwegian: An Old Norse heritageKristin Melum Eide | pp. 365–396
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Chapter 16. From have-omission to supercompounds: A wealth of English perfectsMarc Fryd | pp. 397–438
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Chapter 17. Auxiliary reduction in secondary grammaticalization: Evidence from the Spanish periphrastic pastChad Howe | pp. 439–460
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Chapter 18. The functions of the auxiliary ‘have’ in Australian English vivid narrativesMarie-Eve Ritz and Sophie Richard | pp. 461–478
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Index | pp. 479–485
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Eitler, Tamás & Gábor Vadász
2021. Chapter 13. Language contact and competition in the periphrastic perfect in Early English. In The Perfect Volume [Studies in Language Companion Series, 217], ► pp. 320 ff.
Maisak, Timur A.
2021. Chapter 4. Structural and functional variations of the perfect in the Lezgic languages. In The Perfect Volume [Studies in Language Companion Series, 217], ► pp. 88 ff.
Slomanson, Peter
2021. Chapter 5. Cross-linguistic parallels and contrasts in a contact language perfect construction. In The Perfect Volume [Studies in Language Companion Series, 217], ► pp. 118 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax