The Present Perfective Paradox Across Languages |
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| Author:
| De Wit, Astrid |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-875953-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2016 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $166.32AUD $224.00 |
Book Description:
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This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phenomenon, the 'present perfective paradox'.
This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phenomenon, the 'present perfective paradox'.