The Present Perfective Paradox across Languages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 20, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780198759539
Description: This work 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'.
Notes: Source title: The Present Perfective Paradox across Languages (Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought)