The present perfect and the preterite in late modern and contemporary English : a corpus-based study of grammatical change.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yao, Xinyue.

Contributor:

John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Series:

Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series

Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series ; v.114

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Context (Linguistics).

Classifiers (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2024]

Summary:

This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and British English.

Contents:

Intro

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 The present perfect and the preterite in the history of English

1.2 Approach, methodology, and data

1.3 General theoretical background

1.3.1 A usage-based perspective on language

1.3.2 Lectal variation and language change

1.4 Overview of the present work

Chapter 2 Conceptual framework

2.1 Conceptual preliminaries

2.1.1 Tense and aspect

2.1.2 Situation type

2.1.3 The semantics-pragmatics interface

2.2 An integrated framework

2.2.1 The Reichenbachian system of tenses

2.2.2 Current relevance reexamined

2.2.3 Pragmatic interpretation of the present perfect

2.2.4 Variability in perfect uses

2.2.4.1 The continuative

2.2.4.2 The resultative

2.2.4.3 The experiential

2.2.5 Co-occurrence with temporal adverbials

2.3 Chapter summary

Chapter 3 The diachronic background

3.1 Have-periphrasis and the preterite in Old English

3.2 The origins of the English perfect

3.3 Later developments

3.4 Chapter summary

Chapter 4 Cross-linguistic variation in tense-aspect systems

4.1 Resultatives, anteriors, and perfectives/pasts

4.2 Pragmatic motivations for grammaticalization

4.3 Divergence from universals

4.4 A new cross-linguistic survey

Basque

Slavic

Macedonian

Baltic (Lithuanian)

Albanian

Greek

Celtic (Breton)

Germanic

Romance

4.5 Chapter summary

Chapter 5 General patterns of variation and change in the present perfect and preterite

5.1 Data

5.1.1 Text selection

5.1.2 Data processing

5.2 Results

5.2.1 Register variation

5.2.2 Register-differentiated paths of change

5.3 Chapter summary

Chapter 6 Major conditioning factors of change

6.1 Methodological overview

6.2 Variable selection and coding

6.3 Results

6.3.1 Model summary

6.3.2 Temporal specification

6.3.3 Telicity.

6.3.4 Transitivity

6.3.5 Negation

6.3.6 Subject type

6.3.7 Clause type

6.3.8 Preceding verb form

6.3.9 Variation across individual texts

6.4 Chapter summary

Chapter 7 Additional factors

7.1 Methodological overview

7.2 Variable selection and coding

7.3 Results

7.3.1 Overview

7.3.2 The progressive aspect

7.3.3 Type of temporal adverbial

7.4 Chapter summary

Chapter 8 Internal and external motivations of change

8.1 Testing the formal leveling hypothesis

8.1.1 The hypothesis explained

8.1.2 Corpus evidence

8.2 Comparison with the present perfect and the preterite in Spanish

8.2.1 Diachronic overview

8.2.2 The grammaticalization paths of the present perfect and the preterite

8.2.2.1 Argentinian Spanish

8.2.2.2 American English

8.2.3 The role of language and dialect contact

8.2.3.1 Argentina

8.2.3.2 The United States

8.3 Chapter summary

Chapter 9 Conclusion

9.1 Summary of findings

9.2 Broader implications

9.3 Future research

References

Appendix

Name index

Language index

Subject index.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on April 8, 2024).

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Yao, Xinyue The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English

ISBN:

90-272-4860-5

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