The perfect volume papers on the perfect Kristin Melum Eide

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eide, Kristin M., 1965-

Contributor:

Fryd, Marc.

Series:

Studies in Language Companion

Studies in Language Companion vol. 217

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Auxiliaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (495 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam John Benjamins 2021

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Drawing on the data and history from a wide range of languages, from Ayatal 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

The Perfect Volume

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Chapter 1. The perfect volume: Papers on the perfect

1. Introduction

2. Delimiting and describing the perfect: Typological approaches

3. Morphology: Synthetic, periphrastic, ellipsis and expansion

4. Semantics, prototypical readings and aoristic drift

5. Evidentiality and the perfect

6. The (present) perfect: Tense or aspect?

7. The present perfect puzzle, remote and immediate past

8. Overview and summary of the contributions in this volume

8.1 Part I: Perfects and their relatives: Typology, diachrony, and variation

8.2 Part II: Perfect extensions, hodiernality and aoristic drift

8.3 Part III: Morphology of perfects: Development, selection and omission

References

Part I. Perfects and their relatives: Typology, diachrony, and variation

Chapter 2. "Universal" readings of perfects and iamitives in typological perspective

Introduction

The corpora

The gram sets

Universal readings of perfects

European perfects in duration-quantifying contexts

'Already' and iamitives in duration-quantifying contexts

Left boundary adverbials

Universally quantifying adverbials

Discussion and conclusions

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Chapter 3. Perfect and its relatives in Atayal

2. The unexpected pretender: Resultative

3. Wa(l)-construction: An almost perfect perfect

4. The infixed form: A discontinuous past

5. New formation: A specialized experiential construction in the Pyanan variety

6. Particle la: Yet another perfect relative

7. Conclusion

Chapter 4. Structural and functional variations of the perfect in the Lezgic languages

1. The Lezgic languages: General profile.

2. The Lezgic tense and aspect systems: An overview

2.1 Aspectual stems

2.2 Periphrastic forms

2.3 The place of aorists and perfects in the paradigm

3. Variations in the structure of the aorists and the perfects

3.1 The aorists

3.2 The perfects

4. Variations in the functions of aorists

5. Variations in the functions of the perfects

5.1 Perfect proper ('current relevance') meaning

5.2 Resultative meaning

5.3 Experiential meaning

5.4 Indirective evidential meanings

6. Towards the diachronic account of the Lezgic perfects

7. Conclusions

Chapter 5. Cross-linguistic parallels and contrasts in a contact language perfect construction

2. Morphological elaboration of the verb in SLM and SLP

3. Morphosyntactic analysis of the derivation of verbs and negation

4. The pragmatic function of non-finite participial clauses

5. The SLM perfect construction as biclausal

6. Contrasts in the SLP data

List of abbreviations

Chapter 6. Perfect and negation: Evidence from Lithuanian and sundry languages

2. Perfect and negation: General remarks

3. General remarks on Lithuanian perfect

4. Perfect and negation in Lithuanian

5. Perfect and negation in the East Baltic area

6. Some parallels in Eurasia

7. Summary and conclusions

Sources

Chapter 7. The diachrony of the perfect in Zapotec

1.1 Modern Zapotec languages and Colonial Valley Zapotec

1.2 Zapotec verb morphology

1.3 Aspect systems in modern Central Zapotec

1.4 The aspect system of Isthmus Zapotec

2. The aspectual system of Colonial Valley Zapotec

3. The wa- morpheme in Colonial Valley Zapotec.

3.1 Two colonial grammars: Cordova (1578) and Levanto (1732)

3.2 Cordova's description

3.3 Perfects in Levanto (1732)

3.4 Textual evidence

4. Historical development and semantic shift of wa-

5. Conclusions

Part II. Perfect extensions, hodiernality and aoristic drift

Chapter 8. More on hodiernality

2. The competition between the perfect and the past

3. The role of temporal modification

3.1 Proximate demonstrative + cyclic-calendar noun

4. The role of the present tense

5. The role of the present tense matters in perfect constructions

6. Deriving the hodiernal reading

Chapter 9. The impact of the simultaneity vector on the temporal-aspectual development of the perfect tense in Romance languages

2. Tense and aspect in the perfect

3. The perfect's temporal vectors. Simultaneity

3.1

3.2

3.3

4. The Portuguese perfect

5. The perfect in American Spanish

5.1

5.2

6. The perfect in European Spanish and Catalan

6.1

6.2

7. The perfect in French

7.1

7.2

8. Conclusions

8.1

8.2

8.3

Funding

Chapter 10. Gauging expansion in synchrony: The periphrastic perfect in nineteenth century

2. Background

2.1 Rioplatense Spanish

2.2 The perfect

2.3 Grammaticalization and source determination

2.4 Micro-step expansions

3. Data and analysis

3.1 M'hijo el dotor

3.2 Newspapers and magazines

3.3 Abeille (1900[2005])

4. Discussion and conclusions

Part III. Morphology of perfects: Development, selection and omission

Chapter 11. The rise of the periphrastic perfect tense in the continental West Germanic languages.

1. Introduction

2. The rise of the periphrastic perfect tense

3. Theoretical background: Unaccusative and undative verbs

4. Analysis

4.1 The transition from stage I to stage II

4.2 The transition from stage II to stage III

5. Comparison with Coussé's flexible user-based approach

Chapter 12. On the emergence of auxiliary selection in Germanic

2. Distinguishing perfects from resultative constructions

3. Early Germanic have-perfects

4. Emergence and spread of the be-perfect

5. Reanalysis and its consequences

5.1 English and German temporal auxiliaries

5.2 The emergence of the new perfect in German: Past adverbials and doubling

6. Conclusion

Chapter 13. Language contact and competition in the periphrastic perfect in Early English

3. Research design and data

4. Results and discussion

5. Conclusion

Primary sources

Chapter 14. The Swedish perfect and periphrasis

2. Lexical restrictions

3. Structural restrictions

3.1 Raising constructions

3.2 ECM

4. The corpus study

4.1 Material

4.2 Method

4.3 Results and discussion

5. A lexical approach to ha-omission

Chapter 15. "Have-less perfects" in Norwegian: An old Norse heritage

2. The preterit subjunctive

2.1 Preterit subjunctive in Old Norse

2.2 Preterit subjunctive in Norwegian dialects

3. The supine form as a non-finite subjunctive marker

3.1 The modal functions of past tense forms

4. Supine-for-infinitive constructions

4.1 Preterit modal+ supine

4.2 Perfect modal + supine

4.3 Infinitival marker + supine

Abbreviations.

References

Chapter 16. From have-omission to supercompounds: A wealth of English perfects

1. Have-less non-finite Perfect constructions

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.5

1.7

1.8

2. From the modal pluperfect to supercompound perfects

2.1

2.2

2.3

2.4

2.5

2.6

2.7

3. Concluding remarks

Chapter 17. Auxiliary reduction in secondary grammaticalization: Evidence from the Spanish periphrastic past

2. The development of the Spanish PP

2.1 Dialectal development in Spanish

2.2 The Spanish PP in secondary grammaticalization

3. Morpho-phonological changes in the PP

4. Auxiliary reduction in the Spanish PP

4.1 Neutralizing contexts for auxiliary reduction

4.2 Beyond phonetic contexts of reduction

5. Auxiliary reduction in Spanish narratives

5.1 Evidence for auxiliary reduction

5.2 A preliminary proposal for form/function development

6. Conclusions

Chapter 18. The functions of the auxiliary 'have' in Australian English vivid narratives

2.1 The PP in Australian English

2.2 Non-standard participles and past forms in English varieties

3. Analysis

3.1 Description of corpora

3.2 Analysis of verb forms in clauses with elided subject following a non-standard PP clause

4. Discussion and conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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OCLC:

1245957479